{"id":13253,"date":"2019-05-17T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:41:38","slug":"sham-sharing-ministries-test-faith-of-patients-and-insurance-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13253","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sham\u2019 Sharing Ministries Test Faith Of Patients And Insurance Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Sheri Lewis, 59, of Seattle, needed a hip transplant. Bradley Fuller, 63, of nearby Kirkland, needed chemotherapy and radiation when the pain in his jaw turned out to be throat cancer. And Kim Bruzas, 55, of Waitsburg, hundreds of miles away, needed emergency care to stop sudden \u2014and severe \u2014 rectal bleeding.<\/p>\n

Each of these Washington state residents required medical treatment during the past few years, and each thought they had purchased health insurance through an online site.<\/p>\n

But when it was time to pay the bills, they learned that the products they bought through Aliera Healthcare Inc. weren\u2019t insurance at all \u2014 and that the cost of their care wasn\u2019t covered.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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