PacifiCare was recently fined $3.5 million by the state of California
for systematic mishandling of at least 133,000 claims like Nick's. The
company is facing up to $1.3 billion in addition penalties, for illegally
denying care, and a Department of Managed Health Care investigation found
that the corporation wrongly denied claims in 30 percent of its HMO cases
in 2006-7. In 2005, PacifiCare was taken over by the nation's largest
health insurer, UnitedHealth, which is expected to grow its profits 13
percent in 2007-8, according to recent reports.
Nick is not being singled out for his cancer, Pacificare is not giving out the service they say that they provide so they can keep more money at the cost of human's health.
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