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Fri, 09/04/2009 - 7:36am — DCblogger

State attorney general targets health insurers

The California attorney general's office opened an investigation Thursday into allegations that the state's largest health insurers were rejecting medical claims at alarming rates. ...

... The nurses union said some of the companies had denial rates between 27 percent and 40 percent during the first six months of this year, with PacifiCare rejecting 39.6 ercent of claims it received.

The CNA said Cigna rejected 32.7 percent, Health Net 30 percent, Kaiser Permanente 28.3 percent and Blue Cross 27.9 percent.

You only THINK you have insurance.

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Now, about that trigger...

By lambert on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 7:45am

Why don't we just tell the health insurance parasites the game is over, and go straight to single payer? Why wait?

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Great find DC

By Valley Girl on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 6:25pm

I read this earlier today, and read the article via the linky-

This part is worth quoting too:

"They're trying to represent it as if care was being denied, that people's health was being put at risk," said Nicole Kasabian Evans. "Their numbers distort the reality."

Some rejections were based on "paperwork issues" that, in many cases, were eventually resolved and had "little financial impact on consumers or impact the care received," she said.

Oh, noes! Totally minor problem- "paperwork issues". Which have little financial impact on consumers. Uh...

And, right now, when I looked at the article linky again, there's a really great featured comment, which pretty much tells the tale.

Doesn't seem to be a way to get a permalink to the comment, but it's this one:
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