'Shook me to my core': Ex-health insurance exec reveals horror stories that made him quit

A former health insurance executive for Cigna opened up in The New York Times Wednesday about his experience that left him "disgusted" — and forced him to leave the insurance industry.

This comes amid a flurry of national conversation on the ethics of health insurance, and the denials of claims for the sick and vulnerable, kicked off by the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and a subsequent internet phenomenon of people openly celebrating the crime and the alleged assassin.

"It began in 2005...