Released: October 19, 2009

Healthcare bills lack protections against denials

Source: Lisa Girion, L.A.Times (Free Registration)

Despite growing frustration with the way health insurers deny medical treatments, major healthcare bills pending in Congress would give patients little new power to challenge those sometimes life-and-death decisions.

“Right now, the deck is stacked against patients,” said Bryan Liang, director of the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western Law School in San Diego. “Healthcare reform is not going to change the ball game.”

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