[Cardhu]

"The health insurer violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008 after it was bought by UnitedHealth Group," the Department of Insurance says.

[Frantzie]

Balancing the budget through more theft.

[Slyfox]

The only solution is a complete government takeover, dontchaknow.

[EyeGuy]

Looming shortfall in the fat pensions of the dead-assed government bureaucrats and union slobs?

[Lancey Howard]

LOL!

[South40]

The health insurer violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008

They jacked me around for over a year beginning in 2007. I had previously wondered how a company so incredibly incompetent could remain in business...now I know it was possibly intentional.

[VeniVidiVici]

$9 billion in fines.

And the Democrats are left wondering why businesses aren’t hiring in this environment.

[1035rep]

Obama and his assclowns to the rescue! Nothing that a complete government takeover can’t fix.

[CriticalJ]

It looks like the company did some things wrong and should be fined, but 9 billions dollars?

Like many of you said, a fat lamb to sacrifice for the state budget.

[saganite]

California needs the money. They will sue Arnie next.

[4yearlurker]

Well alright California regulators!! That's what I call revenuing!!

[csmusaret]

So which big GOP donor runs this outfit?

[catnipman]

“[Pacificare] repeatedly mismanaged medical claims, lost thousands of patient documents, failed to pay doctors what they were owed and ignored calls to fix the problems. ..... This is about intentional disregard for the interests of doctors, hospitals and patients”

Well, I had PacifCare for a few years, and this was indeed par for the course. Now I have Cigna and basically the same thing. As for as I can tell, they all operate like this. It’s all deliberately hardcopy based, resulting in the maximum number of errors, lost documents, etc. The really curious thing, though, is that the errors are ALWAYS in the insurance company’s favor.

In “The Rainmaker” based on John Grisham’s book, the crooked insurance company “Great Benefit” was shown to have automatically denied ALL claims the first time by policy. Well, let me tell you something, they ALL do this, particularly if you self-file as a consequence of going out of network. They’re simply counting on you being too sick and/or too ignorant to put up a fight, and unfortunately it works.

Quite frankly, I’m glad to see someone address this issue. Maybe if Pacificare is taken to task, the rest of them will have the fear of god put in them!

[Kozak]

failed to pay doctors what they were owed

So the docs can expect that check any day now right?

This from a state that routinely cheats doc's out of payment from Medical....

[DTogo]

Establish a $9.9Bn "slush fund" to add to BP's $20Bn.

Or maybe United Health Group can just file C-7 and put everyone on Obamacare!

[Tzimisce]

Is PacifiCare the non-profit insurance out there?

[reader25]

I don't pretend to know all the details of this issue but 9.9 Billion is a lot of the money. Knowing that California has a serious budget deficit it appears as though California is attempting to balance the budget suing a private company.

What California will do when all the private companies have left the state due to the oppressive policies of the state?