Blue Shield blasted for denying treatment after retired SF firefighter dies

Source: New York Post

Health insurance giant Blue Shield is under fire for denying claims of life-saving treatment for a retired San Francisco firefighter who recently died from lung cancer. Ken Jones, who was in a bitter insurance fight that caught the attention of local outlets, died Saturday at 71 more than a year into his stage four cancer diagnosis. “I believe, wholeheartedly, that they expedited his death,” Jeanine Nicholson, the former chief of the San Francisco Fire Department and a friend, told NBC Bay Area.