Harvard Researchers Say Insurers Put Profits Over Health

More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the habit, they say. A new article on insurance company holdings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that U.S., Canadian and U.K.-based insurance firms hold at least $4.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on June 5th, 2009