Healthcare system anti-life?
MSNBC-Family sues insurer who denied teen transplant
17-year-old girl died hours after Cigna finally agreed to pay for new liver
The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after her health insurer reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant plans to sue the company, their attorney said Friday.
Nataline Sarkisyan died Thursday at about 6 p.m. at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. She had been in a vegetative state for weeks, said her mother, Hilda.
Attorney Mark Geragos said he plans to ask the district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare in the case. The insurer “maliciously killed her” because it did not want to bear the expense of her transplant and aftercare, Geragos said
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The free market really works!
The 17 year old girl (Natalie) had been battling leukemia for 3 years. She had already had a bone marrow transplant from her brother and the failure of this transplant is what precipitated her coma and liver failure. Apparently, this is considered “experimental” and I can see how the insurance company was reluctant to fund a liver transplant on an immunosuppressed post bone marrow transplant patient in a coma but, I would be interested in the doctors’ medical rationale as to why they felt she would be a viable and successful leukemic liver transplant patient.
This does not sound like a case of a greedy insurer to me. Sounds more like a bunch of opportunists pushing an agenda—-”the evils of private health insurance”. Never mind that if the government were in charge–cost effectiveness and probability of favorable outcome of said treatment would always be the overriding rationale for medical funding of treatments and individual circumstances/variances/doctors’ recommendations would take a back seat to government budgeting and regulation.
Hey Hoads:
Easy to say what you said when it isn’t your kid. According to the stats on the case she had a 65% chance of survival. It is disgusting how many people die because of our “system”–The system is the rich live–the very rich get all the experimental stuff and live longer and the poor don’t get chopped liver
I searched for \’Medical Health Care\’ in google and found this your post (\’le + ‘ – ‘ + basename(imgurl) + ‘(’ + w + ‘x’ + h +’)\’) in search results. Not very relevant result, but still interesting to read.