The Real Death Panels

[SHRED]

This is the reality.
If your procedure is too costly, then you die.

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The Real Death Panels


More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation's biggest state, according to data released Wednesday by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

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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

LINK:
http://www.guaranteedhealthcare.org/blog/shum-preston/2009/09/03/the-real-death-panels

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. There was some RN on a townhall phone call last night with Sen. Pryor. She tried to lay the

blame on 'government interference' with her hospital. I'm yelling my head off at her in the safety of my kitchen. I was truly amazed that the Senator could maintain his cool.