"California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it repeatedly mismanaged medical claims, lost thousands of patient documents, failed to pay doctors what they were owed and ignored calls to fix the problems.

In court filings and other documents, the California Department of Insurance says PacifiCare violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008 after it was purchased by UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest health insurance company by revenue."

Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pacificare-unitedhealth-20100908,0,6380098.story

This is the perfect proof to show that a privatized health insurance system is far from working smoother or more efficient than government health care. In fact, I have never heard of such a thing in a coutnry with a government-run unviersal health care system. I just hope that the California government will demand the whole fine.