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September 3, 2009

Study: California Insurers Deny Over One in Five Claims
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In other healthcare news, a new study shows the top private health
insurers in California rejected more than one in five medical claims
over the last seven years. The California Nurses Association and
National Nurses Organizing Committee says California’s six largest
insurers rejected over 31.2 million, or 21 percent, of claims from 2002
through this past June. The groups’ co-president Deborah Burger said,
“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.”



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