“There is good cause to believe” that the Florida companies have sold shoddy coverage by falsely claiming that such policies were comprehensive health insurance or qualified health plans under the Affordable Care Act, Judge Darrin P. Gayles of the Federal District Court in Miami said in a temporary restraining order issued last week at the request of the Federal Trade Commission.
Telemarketers lured consumers through websites offering Trumpcare and Obamacare, using logos of well-known insurers to make the coverage appear credible, the trade commission said.
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Among the products offered through Simple Health and its websites were “short term” health insurance plans like those promoted by President Trump as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
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The Secular Jurist 
I’ve been seeing some TV commercials for some of these cheap policies. I had a feeling something rotten was up with at least a few of them. Another problem caused by the GOP and their abominable policies on health care.
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Yes, we’re getting those TV commercials here too. They’re easy to spot because they make sensational claims to target gullible and uninformed people.
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Unbelievable how insurance and scam could come up in the same sentence. I guess they have to use the word insurance to describe the type of scam
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Yep, the insurance industry has a very close relationship with the word “scam” along with Wall Street, Big Oil, and, and, and…
I guess it would be easier to name the industries that are more ethical. If there are any, that is.
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Churches. They seemed to have escaped corruption.
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Absolutely. Church leaders never lie to their congregations, enrich themselves from poor people’s donations, engage in political shenanigans, have sordid sexual affairs which even the most heathen can’t match, nor do they ever commit pedophilia. Churches are the very flower of humanity, and we should all follow their illustrious example.
How was that? – lol!
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Perfect!!
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