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Calif. Nurses Say Insurance Companies Run the Real Death Panels

by Karen Hatter | September 4, 2009 at 05:43 am

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According to data released by California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, during the period 2002 to 2009, nearly 50 million insurance claims, 22% of all claims filed with six of California's largest insurers, were denied. From the article: For the first half of 2009, as the national debate over healthcare reform was escalating, the rejection rates are even more striking. Claims denial rates by leading California insurers, first six months of 2009:

PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent

Cigna -- 32.7 percent

HealthNet -- 30 percent

Kaiser Permanente -- 28.3 percent

Blue Cross -- 27.9 percent

Aetna -- 6.4 percent

"Every claim that is denied represents a real patient enduring pain and suffering. Every denial has real, sometimes fatal consequences," said Burger. Click here to read California's Real Death Panels.

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at 06:50 on September 4th, 2009

These percentages are staggering!

“The United States remains the only country in the industrialized world where human lives are sacrificed for private profit, a national disgrace that seems on the verge of perpetuation,"

Truth or Fiction?????

Bob C (not verified)

at 16:38 on September 4th, 2009

One has to see the reprt and how they came up with the numbers. How may claims were made for people who's terminated their own policy or were no longer covered? How may people were dead, yes dead and the policy was rejected. Check it out.

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at 02:37 on September 9th, 2009

Yea, Most surprising posting "Calif. Nurses Say Insurance Companies Run the Real Death Pan" and percentage is so high as PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent, Cigna -- 32.7 percent, HealthNet -- 30 percent, Kaiser Permanente -- 28.3 percent, Blue Cross -- 27.9 percent, Aetna -- 6.4 percent.