People Left Without Insurance Due To Errors In Boston
The Boston state’s universal healthcare system has ended healthcare for tens of thousands of people since the start of the year. This is according to state enrollment figures. Sometimes patients were terminated because of their own mistakes. In other cases the errors were due to the state.
These figures do not reveal how many people reenrolled later. The number of wrongfully terminated people has not been tracked either. According to community advocates and lawyers, a steady stream of enrollees’ insurance was cancelled unilaterally with no fault from them.
According to state regulators such people number lesser than one hundred. This is only one of the pains in a law requiring every resident to have coverage. According to advocates, the state’s eligibility documents are complex which has resulted in some patients having their insurance terminated.
The downside of this is that thousands of dollars in medical bills may be racked up by such people and they find that their expenses will not be reimbursed. The issue in question is fairness. If a private insurance plan did this there would have been a huge outcry.
