Health Insurance Scams: How to Protect Yourself FOXBusiness
The worse the economy gets, the more con artists rise to the surface with schemes to trick you out of your hard-earned money, including a fast-growing crop of fake health insurance plans.
And confusion over health care reform produces an environment ripe with scams. There's good reason for confusion: "Health care reform is a gigantic 2,000-page bill jammed with provisions that are phasing in over several years," says Jim Quiggle, spokesperson for the nonprofit Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, which provided details for the schemes described below. Government and insurers haven't done a good job of telling consumers what changes to expect, he adds. (See this health care reform timeline .)
As people have lost work and health insurance coverage , scammers are jumping in with an array of cheap, phony plans so cleverly marketed that it's hard to tell you've been duped until it's too late.
Some even go door to door selling "products" and telling people, "We know you're confused about the changes, we're here to help."
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