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Mary Defayette, a breast cancer survivor from Eagle, Idaho, told Consumers Union that despite her need for follow-up treatment and costly prescriptions – and the haunting fear of a relapse – the $8,500 annual cost of her health insurance finally forced her to drop her coverage. For the first time in her life, she is uninsured. This week, Mary told her story to the press, and members of Congress, too. Read more »

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The health insurance industry has been making a lot of promises lately. They promise not to deny anyone coverage, if the government requires everyone buy insurance from them. They promise to end their discriminatory practice of charging women higher premiums than men, or charging sick people more than healthy folks. And now their latest promise – not to hike costs on customers quite as much as they have in the past. Read more »

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