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Blue Shield Delays Rate Hike After Nurses’ Protest

How’s this for a demonstration of cause and effect?

Cause—Yesterday, some 200 activists, led by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United ( CNA/NNU ) rallied outside Blue Shield’s San Francisco corporate headquarters to protest the health insurance giant’s premium hikes of as much as 59 percent for California consumers.

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California Insurers Reject More Than Quarter of All Claims

A new study by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United ( CNA/NNU ) finds that California’s largest private insurance companies continue to deny more than one-fourth of all claims and two firms rejected about 40 percent of submitted claims.

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