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Thank you, Wendell, for your courageous stand. That thanks isn't enough, though. We need to take the next step together, everyone who is outraged by the health insurance situation in this country. We need to do as the Civil Rights Movement did, take it to the lunch counters (insurance companies), to the courts, to the streets, if need be.

Recission may violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on a de facto basis since it is practiced routinely against those with prior heatlh conditions and those people fall most heavily in protected groups, namely women of childbearing age and workers 48-64 years old.

Purging may violate the HIPAA Act of 1996, because it results in insurers and health plans revealing illness information to employers for individuals, who eventually get fired for a trumped-up cause to lower the employer's premiums.

There may be other violations as well; I am no attorney although I do have some familiarity with both of these pieces of legislation.

What can be done to help?