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10-10-2009, 02:52 AM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One of the things that you can never anticipate fully before becoming a parent is the absolute ferocity of the instinct to protect your child. It's innate, feral, and so deep that it can actually scare you. I am profoundly grateful every day that my children were born healthy, but I know that should my luck run out and one of my kids develop some sort of life-threatening illness, there is no stone I would leave unturned in my quest to save my child. There is no length I wouldn't go for my babies.
And if all those efforts were in vain, I don't know how I'd survive the loss of my child. I had a miscarriage some years back, and I carried that loss like a huge, gaping wound inside me for so long. And that was for a child with whom I never got a chance to know or develop a real bond.
Now imagine how Hilda Sarkisyan feels. The daughter she bore, raised and nurtured for seventeen years dies just hours before the insurance company she battled finally relented to give her daughter the liver transplant she needed. Can you imagine that grief, that anger at how unnecessary Nataline's death was? All the obstacles placed in their way by a for-profit insurance company in addition to just missing Nataline had to be paralyzing in its pain. </div></div> link (http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/heres-your-real-death-panel-cigna-employees) <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cigna later apologized for the 2008 incident, but it has now become -- unintentionally -- the central element of a lawsuit Sarkisyan and her husband, Grigor, are pressing against the health insurer.
The suit began as a wrongful-death complaint, with the couple contending that Cigna's refusal to cover the transplant led to Nataline's death Dec. 20, 2007, in a case that drew national media attention.
A Los Angeles judge threw out the wrongful-death complaint, saying it was barred by a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields employer-paid healthcare plans from damages over their coverage decisions.
But U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess said the Sarkisyans could pursue damages for any emotional distress caused by the Philadelphia incident.
The ruling was bittersweet for the Sarkisyans and patient advocates, who say it points to the need for federal legislation to allow people to sue health insurers for the life-or-death decisions they make.
"They kill a beautiful 17-year-old girl, and I get to go after them for a finger? That's sick," Hilda Sarkisyan said. </div></div>
Real story.
Last Friday my girlfriend/partner [ 25 years] came home with what seemed like the flu. The day after, I got sick as well. Both of us were REALLY sick but after 3 days of fever and misery I felt the worst was over, but not for my girl. She got worse.
In short, she went to the Doc, the Doc sent her straight to hospital and she will be in for at least another week, if not more. She has an infection in both lungs and has real difficulty breathing. She gets checked every 1/2 hour by a nurse and even during the night she is seen by a Doctor every 2 hours. Another problem is she can't keep anything down and they don't know why. She has hardly eaten anything in a week.
At least there is ONE thing I don't have to worry about and that's the cost.
The cost will be zero.
I don't have to fight the insurance Company to get them to pay for recommended treatment. The Doc decides, not somebody trying to make his/her quota and bonus.
Thank God.
In the case above, if I was that girl's father, I would like to see the guy who refused the treatment..wouldn't you?
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..........actually, I should have been heading off today to sunny Spain! My brother and I had booked an apartment in a lux golf complex, La Torres. Everything is paid including 12 rounds on the best courses in the area, plus car.........can't go. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif Sigh...........oh well..........can't catch a break.....
And if all those efforts were in vain, I don't know how I'd survive the loss of my child. I had a miscarriage some years back, and I carried that loss like a huge, gaping wound inside me for so long. And that was for a child with whom I never got a chance to know or develop a real bond.
Now imagine how Hilda Sarkisyan feels. The daughter she bore, raised and nurtured for seventeen years dies just hours before the insurance company she battled finally relented to give her daughter the liver transplant she needed. Can you imagine that grief, that anger at how unnecessary Nataline's death was? All the obstacles placed in their way by a for-profit insurance company in addition to just missing Nataline had to be paralyzing in its pain. </div></div> link (http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/heres-your-real-death-panel-cigna-employees) <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cigna later apologized for the 2008 incident, but it has now become -- unintentionally -- the central element of a lawsuit Sarkisyan and her husband, Grigor, are pressing against the health insurer.
The suit began as a wrongful-death complaint, with the couple contending that Cigna's refusal to cover the transplant led to Nataline's death Dec. 20, 2007, in a case that drew national media attention.
A Los Angeles judge threw out the wrongful-death complaint, saying it was barred by a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields employer-paid healthcare plans from damages over their coverage decisions.
But U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess said the Sarkisyans could pursue damages for any emotional distress caused by the Philadelphia incident.
The ruling was bittersweet for the Sarkisyans and patient advocates, who say it points to the need for federal legislation to allow people to sue health insurers for the life-or-death decisions they make.
"They kill a beautiful 17-year-old girl, and I get to go after them for a finger? That's sick," Hilda Sarkisyan said. </div></div>
Real story.
Last Friday my girlfriend/partner [ 25 years] came home with what seemed like the flu. The day after, I got sick as well. Both of us were REALLY sick but after 3 days of fever and misery I felt the worst was over, but not for my girl. She got worse.
In short, she went to the Doc, the Doc sent her straight to hospital and she will be in for at least another week, if not more. She has an infection in both lungs and has real difficulty breathing. She gets checked every 1/2 hour by a nurse and even during the night she is seen by a Doctor every 2 hours. Another problem is she can't keep anything down and they don't know why. She has hardly eaten anything in a week.
At least there is ONE thing I don't have to worry about and that's the cost.
The cost will be zero.
I don't have to fight the insurance Company to get them to pay for recommended treatment. The Doc decides, not somebody trying to make his/her quota and bonus.
Thank God.
In the case above, if I was that girl's father, I would like to see the guy who refused the treatment..wouldn't you?
Q..........
..........actually, I should have been heading off today to sunny Spain! My brother and I had booked an apartment in a lux golf complex, La Torres. Everything is paid including 12 rounds on the best courses in the area, plus car.........can't go. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif Sigh...........oh well..........can't catch a break.....