Dear Rocky Mountain Health Plans...FUCK you, the media SHAMED you into helping "the fat baby."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"A flaw" my ass. FUCK you, FUCK your flaw. You got CAUGHT. The kid gets to live.

:grr:

Fat baby can get coverage after all, insurer says
Colo. company had turned tot down saying he had ‘a pre-existing condition’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33283839/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/



DENVER - A Colorado insurance company is changing its attitude about fat babies.

Rocky Mountain Health Plans said Monday it will no longer consider obesity a "pre-existing condition" barring coverage for hefty infants. The change comes after the insurer turned down a Grand Junction 4-month-old who weighs about 17 pounds. The insurer deemed Alex Lange obese and said the infant didn't qualify for coverage.

The child's father works at NBC affiliate KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, and news accounts about the boy's rejection made national headlines.

The insurer said Monday it would change its policy for babies that are healthy but fat. The company attributed the boy's rejection for health coverage to "a flaw in our underwriting system."

[csziggy]

1. the "flaw" was they finally denied a family that went to the media

And called the insurance company on their BS.

[JuniperLea]

2. Change for babies that are fat?

How about people who are fat because they have a health issue? Or, have the insurance, and become fat because of a health issue... jeez... I'm even compelled to play the word games here... how sick.

[Beaverhausen]

3. Exactly right. If that baby's father was not a newsperson, this baby would not be covered

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. It's proof that no matter how corrupt and entrenched the "system" might be,,,,

...it is STILL terrified by the light of day.

I wish I could be a fly on the wall during that moment in time when that baby is an adult, and can understand what happened today.

:patriot:

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. Not necessarily true.

Does your local news have an "on your side" or some such segment? They are always looking for the latest outrage to blather on about.

[kath]

5. fucking fuckwad fuckers.

Get insurance companies out of healthcare NOW!!

[hedgehog]

6. All you unhealthy babies are still S.O.L.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Yes, unless their parents can make the same noise THIS kid's dad did.

What angers me is that THIS kid will be helped because the insurance company wants the story out of the headlines.

What happens the next time?

[LisaL]

7. "The biggest loser" show for babies. Now that's an idea.

:rofl:

[sabrina 1]

9. So they admit that they only cover healthy people. So what

are they doing in the 'health-care' business?

Remove the middlemen. As Kucinich says 'we do not need them'. All they do is cost money. They have a pre-existing condition, it's called Greed and the only known cure is to cut off their access to other people's money.

A government-run program would cost one tenth the overhead that private insurers cost.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Hurry Congress - get rid of pre existing conditions

[endless october]

11. yep.

most likely they would have dumped the kid had his dad not worked for a news station.

[MindandSoul]

12. The point is: There should be NO EXCLUSIONS AT ALL!

It is not when one is healthy that he needs insurance the most. . .it is when there is a danger or when there is a pre-existing condition. . .

So . . .there should NOT be any "cutting point" for insurance!

[snagglepuss]

13. This story was included Canadian newcasts tonight and I'm sure its going

to be mentioned elsewhere in the world because its just too damn unbelievable that such a healthy cutie-pie would be denied coverage. That baby should be a poster child for the fight against all that is lousy and corrupt about US health insurance.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Sweet! International Outrage?

World, you know what to do. Light this one up and make it viral.

[WillyT]

14. Yeah Assholes... And Were Gonna KEEP Coming After You When We Find This Shit...

:mad:

:kick:

[gratuitous]

15. NBC News had this story tonight

Some industry jackass named "Speedie" was interviewed, and he and other industry mouthpieces agreed that it wasn't the insurance companies' fault that young Alex was denied. It was the system's fault!

Pardon the hell out of me, but what system? The system set up by and for the benefit of insurance companies? That system?

Motherfuckers.

[wildflower]

16. Clearly that baby needs to exert some personal responsibility

:)

[Mz Pip]

17. Good grief

It can't be that uncommon for a 4 month old baby to weigh 17 pounds. I think my second son weighed about that much at that time. By time he was 4 he was in "slim" jeans.

"a flaw in our underwriting system." Uh, huh. And these twits are worried about the government coming between the patients and the doctors. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

18. This is precisely WHY employers should NOT be in charge of health care

National healthcare with EVERYONE IN, means that "fat babies" are balanced out (costwise) by the lean babies, and that Dad (or Mom) gets a paycheck for the WORK they do, and then boss is NOT "intimately" involved in their personal lives or the lives of their children.

Look at the Europeans plans.. they drink lots of wine, eat lots of pasta, sauces with butter, and they smoke too ... and yet they live longer, and live healthier lives.. Could it possibly be that the relatively stress-free lives they lead (compared to us) might have something to do with it?

Tying health care to the job was the WORST thing we could have done...it put downward pressure on wages, made what few unions are left negotiate away pay raises and pensions in favor of "benefits"..and it made bosses even snoopier than they ever were.. It also made workers indentured servants, anxiously scooping up crumbs and fighting each other over those crumbs, as the bosses shovel whole pies into their faces....and wads of cash into their bank accounts..

[Ruby the Liberal]

21. At the time, it made sense

Employers couldn't afford to pay people, so we exempted insurance from anti-trust and used it to lure workers.

How I wish FDR could have tagged healthcare to his other plans.

The monster just consumed us with its greed.

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. Ha! Forget the attorneys. ALWAYS try the media first.

[JI7]

23. it was his Parents, not the whore media

the whore media only picked up the story because of all the "fat baby" stuff.

but this happens to many others but they don't report it unless it has some "attention getting" words involved.

yeah, i understand it took the whore media to get it out there but i still don't give them much credit.