{"id":4746,"date":"2016-10-18T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:38:58","slug":"7-insurers-alleged-to-use-skimpy-drug-coverage-to-discourage-hiv-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4746","title":{"rendered":"7 Insurers Alleged To Use Skimpy Drug Coverage To Discourage HIV Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The health law prohibits insurers from discriminating against people with serious illnesses, but some marketplace plans sidestep that taboo by making the drugs that people with HIV need unavailable or unaffordable,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chlpi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CHLPI_OCR-Complaint-Press-Release_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">complaints filed recently<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>with the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office for Civil Rights allege.\u00a0The effect may be to discourage people with HIV from buying a particular plan or getting the treatment they need, according to the complaint. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/7-insurers-alleged-to-use-skimpy-drug-coverage-to-discourage-hiv-patients\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=36012883&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_z1DpKOb5TP1HL22zhgav7Sk2MEhqbqA-_8oe-oRmenR5gl7mMuuctWRr-ls3vpRMG6V2LsYHtIOkGEAnWrIA91IrFog&amp;_hsmi=36012883\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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