"States on lookout for health plan scams" by Associated Press | April 7, 2010
WASHINGTON — Scam artists are taking advantage of the new health insurance law to peddle phony policies.
Kathleen Sebelius, health and human services secretary, said yesterday that she is warning state officials about a proliferation of scams involving phony policies. Federal investigators are also on the lookout.
Some of the hustlers are going door to door claiming there is a limited open-enrollment period to buy insurance now. But the big expansion of coverage won’t occur for four years and door-to-door sales are unlikely to be part of the plan then.
“Unfortunately, scam artists and criminals may be using the passage of these historic reforms as an opportunity to confuse and defraud the public,’’ Sebelius wrote in a letter to state insurance commissioners and attorneys general.Otherwise known as the government.
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