Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle"
In an editorial for the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation senior contributing editor Elizabeth Rosenthal described the problem of insurance claim denials in the starkest terms: by providing examples of real letters people had gotten denying them and their loved ones coverage.
One such letter, sent directly to a newborn baby, was so absurd that — if it weren't real and published in WaPo — we would think it was satire.
"You are drinking from a bottle," read the denial for the infant's fourth day in the neonatal ICU ward. "You are breathing on your own."
"If only the baby could read," Rosenthal quipped, to devastating effect.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/health-insurance-denial-baby
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it really is quite inhumane....try to imagine the thinking that goes along with this kind of behavior from insurance companies 
They put it in writing and told my onco verbally that I had a recurrence of endometrial cancer after 15 yrs, I had treatment, I’ve had all my female organs removed and a bowel resection, no need to follow up with a PET scan to follow a slightly enlarged inoperable lymph node that showed up on a CAT scan with contrast to determine if it was a spread or just reactive.
Thank goodness he and my uro collaborated and came up with a way to monitor me by continuing and getting approval for quarterly CAT scans with contrast, which showed more detail. AND thankful that it was a reactive node and has continued to shrink.
(Sorry for the poorly formed run-on sentence. That’s what happens before coffee. 
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