Good Morning America aired an excellent segment this morning warning viewers about bogus health discount plans and limited benefits plans. Scam artists are taking advantage of the perfect storm of high health care costs, people losing jobs (and thus, their health coverage) and consumer’s not knowing the difference between these plans and full-blown coverage.

The Coalition’s Jim Quiggle brought this story to GMA several weeks ago after our research started showing the number of cases surfacing around the country was growing at an alarming rate. This looks like a full-blown national scam that could rival the last wave of bogus health plans that defrauded more than 200,000 Americans.

Much more public awareness (and action by regulators and law enforcement) is needed to stem this wave.

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