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He Bought Health Insurance for Emergencies. Then He Fell Into a $33,601 Trap. ProPublica 2 hrs ago
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In the spring of 2019, Cory Dowd suddenly found himself without health insurance for the first time. A self-employed event planner, he had just finished a Peace Corps stint that provided health benefits, but he was still more than a year away from starting a graduate program that would provide coverage through his university.
So, like countless others in an online world, he went insurance shopping on the internet.
Jenny Deam is a reporter covering health care.
Known for her sharp news instincts and narrative writing skills, Deam came to ProPublica from the Houston Chronicle, where she had worked since 2015. With an investigative focus on the business of health care, she wrote about health care fraud and the uneasy intersection of politics, providers and the insurance industry. Her reporting on systemic billing irregularities led to tough new patient protection laws.
Before the Chronicle, Deam was based in Denver as a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, covering Colorado and the region. Her work there included extensive coverage of the Aurora movie theater massacre and its aftermath, the early days of marijuana legalization and the rise of fracking. She has also reported for the Denver Post, St. Petersburg Times and Kansas City Star.
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LARRY SUMMERS op-ed about the Biden stimulus bill that we flagged this morning has set the left wonkosphere on fire. Summers is warning that $1.9 trillion in new spending would amount to three times what is needed to fill in the hole in the economy, and could lead to an overheated economy and financial instability before next year’s midterms. And, more important to progressives, make it difficult to pass President