The number of people purchasing insurance for six months or less in Massachusetts nearly quintupled between 2006 and 2008 according to a new Massachusetts Division of Insurance report [PDF]. These are people who get sick, purchase insurance and dump it when they are done with their treatments. We can only guess how much it has grown in the last two years.
Not surprisingly, the Boston Globe reports, the costs are borne by those working for small employers – you know, the people who were supposed to pay less because of
