skippy the bush kangaroo: health insurance greed runs amok

Sunday, October 11, 2009

health insurance greed runs amok

when a healthy, breastfed 4-month old baby is denied health insurance due to a pre-existing condition. obesity.

bernie and kelli lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with rocky mountain health plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after alex was born. they filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. but the broker who was helping them find new insurance called thursday with news that shocked them.

" 'your baby is too fat,' she told me," bernie said.

up until then, the langes had been happy with alex's healthy appetite and prodigious weight gain. his pediatrician had never mentioned any weight concerns about the baby they call their "happy little chunky monkey." - denverpost.com

no wonder the u.s. is the joke among all the other industrialized countries. they know their future is much brighter than ours. they believe in investing in their citizens. our country is more interested in destroying theirs.

Labels: greed, healthcare

posted by Cookie Jill at 10:26 AM |

2 Comments:

babies grow in spurts & starts. When one of my kiddos was an infant, breastfed babe, one appointment I was told the baby was too thin. So I upped the feeding & the next appointment, I was told he was too fat!
Apparently my baby never read the books with their charts- especially the one that said after a few months, they will sleep through the night.
Ha! I had a year of sleep deprivation.

That is total bullshit for an ins company to make that a loophole to deny coverage.

We need to demand not just public option-- where the ins companies still have us as puppets on a string, but single payer, were ins companies are not calling the shots.

Pres Obama is denying the medicos who want single payer access to the discussion.

Check these vids out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhc1RSC83Uc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm6JB9DXgC4&feature=player_embedded

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