Saturday, January 02, 2010

Why keeping health care in the hands of private insuance companies is crazy

The article quoted below (LINK) is dated, but I just ran into it...

California's Real Death Panels Exposed: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims

On Friday, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) issued a press release analyzing data reported by the insurers to the California Department of Managed Care. More than 1/5 of all claims were denied, according to the report.

From 2002 through June 30, 2009, the six largest insurers operating in California rejected 31.2 million claims for care or 21% of all claims.

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