The Affordable Care Act reined in many of the worst abuses of the health insurance industry, like denying people for pre-existing conditions or for meeting a lifetime coverage maximum — but it remains an industry where patients can be denied critical care for nonsensical reasons — and horror stories continue to abound, Arwa Mahdawi wrote for The Guardian.
The issue has sprung into national prominence following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the arrest of Luigi Mangione for the crime.