The monsters that are the American health insurance industry have hit a new low: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas has denied coverage to a newborn child citing pre-existing condition. If you're blinking stupidly and questioning how that could be, you're not alone.
I CANNOT FRICKING BELIEVE THIS SHIT:
Instantly, Doug Tracy knew something was wrong with his son.
"He wasn't turning pink fast enough," Tracy said. "When they listened to his chest, they realized he had an issue."
That turned out to be d-transposition of the great arteries, a defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are reversed. The condition causes babies to turn blue.
Surgery would correct it, but within days of Houston's birth March 15, Tracy learned that his application for health insurance to cover his son had been denied. The reason: a pre-existing condition.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...
Hopefully the monsters can be humiliated into covering this child. Will Republicans be ashamed by this? Hell no.
Another source:
Houston, born March 15 at a Texas hospital, suffers from a defect in his arteries. When his parents, Doug and Kim, applied to have his corrective surgery covered under their insurance, they were denied, with their carrier claiming Houston had a pre-existing condition, reports CBS station KTVT.
The Tracys are fighting the decision by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.
"They kept saying it's preexisting, it's preexisting, but I don't know how it can be preexisting on a baby that was just born," Doug Tracy said. "If it's mandated that everyone have health insurance, than how can one be denied?"
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
My bold. I don't know how it can be a pre-existing condition either.