Co-Payments Soar for Drugs With High Prices

From the New York Times: Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases... The system means that the burden of expensive health care can now affect insured people, too. Pay here.

Health Insurer To Be Charged With Teen's Murder

The family of a California teenager who died awaiting a liver transplant say they will sue the insurer who they blame for their daughter's death.

Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after her insurer, CIGNA HealthCare, approved a procedure it had previously described as "too experimental."

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