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But Joe Consumer pays insurance premiums for protection in case of a loss, whether it be a loss of life or limb or health or property.
It is disheartening for someone to faithfully pay premiums only to learn at the first sign of trouble their insurers no longer want them as customers.
One man who had carried health insurance with the same company a number of years received a notice not long ago that his policy had been canceled. The stated reason was because his son had contracted diabetes and the man had made several medical claims.
He wrote, in part, “My son’s diabetes has been under good control and claims have been very limited. Yet though our family does not place any unusual burden on the resources of the insuring program, our policy has been discontinued. As a small businessman, my family’s health benefits are not a ‘perc’ provided by an employer or union, but a monthly living expense which closely follows the mortgage payment and grocery bills in the family budget.”
Another irate constituent called to say he had maintained automobile insurance with the same company for 23 years but when he made two small claims within one year, none of them involving an accident that was his fault, the company wrote to serve notice the policy had been canceled.
He said, “They ought to tighten up on these companies who do business in our state and want all the gravy. You pay for insurance and hope you’ll never use it, but when the time comes you have to they show you to the door.”
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