By GottaLaff
NOTE: Sorry about the double video post, but sometimes that happens. I'm afraid to delete anything.
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Unacceptable. Period. This just gave me colic:
Pre-existing obesity. Oy. They're concocting ways to deny even babies health care now? As Rep. Anthony Weiner said earlier today, Big Insurance is "making our argument for us."Four-month-old Alex Lange is described as a "happy, adorable, big baby." Yet he can't get health insurance.
Rocky Mountain Health Plans refuses to cover little Alex because he's too large.
The Denver Post:
"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."Bernie and Kelli Lange tried to get insurance for their growing family with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They filled out the paperwork and awaited approval, figuring their family is young and healthy. But the broker who was helping them find new insurance called Thursday with news that shocked them.
"'Your baby is too fat,' she told me," Bernie said.
Oh yeah? Well, their broker is too rude, insensitive, and smelly.
Bernie, Kelli, and baby Alex will be on MSNBC's The Ed Show today.
Here's more coverage from another Denver station:
H/t: Ellen
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