Last week it was the Colorado baby denied health insurance because he was too fat. Now a Colorado toddler has been denied health insurance because she is underweight.
I shit you not:
The parents of a two-year-old girl in Colorado are unable to obtain health insurance for their daughter because the insurer, United Healthcare Golden Rule, claims she is too small. In a letter sent to the family of the child, Aislin Bates, United Healthcare Golden Rule writes, "we are unable to provide coverage for Aislin because her height and weight do not meet our company standards." According to a Colorado news station, Aislin weighed six pounds, six ounces at birth, and now weighs 22 pounds.
When Robert Bates, the girl's father, left his former job to start his own business, he was forced to seek out his own health insurance, and enrolled his family in an insurance plan with United Healthcare Golden Rule. "It took me by surprise," Bates told ABC 7 in Denver. "I didn't think that her size was that abnormal and that it was something that you'd consider to be unhealthy."
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/aislin-bates-colorado-tod_n_327309.html
It's a good thing I'm not a small child now. I would have been hit with a double-whammy -- being overweight AND shorter than most children my age.
Why don't these companies cut the crap and come out and admit it: Life is a pre-existing, terminal condition so anything for which you might file a claim is not covered.
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