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"Ha ha. What a joke. A million dollar fine. The scumbags at Healthnet couldn't wait to write that check. They probably were high fiving each other."
That's just what I thought when I saw the headline. This fine isn't even a slap on the wrist; it's a minor cost of doing business, like paying the Culligan man who refills the water cooler.
Opie, I think you're not paying sufficient attention to the fact that this company broke the law. When it comes to this type of fine, it doesn't matter if the insured's application was covered with lies from beginning to end. State law says that insurance companies can't reward their employees for catching those lies, period. Compensation has to be independent of claims decisions. That law should either be enforced with real teeth or it should be repealed.
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