Another woman, from Texas, was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne.
Add in all the other cost-inflating provisions of the healthcare law and the long-standing trend of increasing health insurance premiums and the price of a family health insurancepolicy is expected to double over the next decade.
Making matters worse, because low interest rates have undercut the policy's investment returns, Mandell must double his premiums to keep the insurance in force beyond 2005.