This is so outrageous that it made me physically sick. Personally I think Bobert's taking it pretty well - I'd be sorely tempted to go postal. This is so blatant, so criminal, so over the top. You pay the premiums faithfully in the expectation that you will be covered if you are sick. You are diagnosed with a possible illness and then you are dropped. What's the point in having insurance??? Not only are you now not insured, once you've been dropped good luck finding another company that will take you on. For the self righteous who say that the way to go is to work for a big corporation so you can get insurance I would say 1) There aren't enough jobs in corporate America to go around for everybody and 2) Wake up - companies are finding ways to not pay benefits - hiring people "part time", hiring "long term temps". It is unbelievable and disgusting that Americans are meekly accepting this state of affairs.