Natalee Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after Cigna Health Care, her medical insurer, approved what it had previously described as "too experimental" a procedure. (ABC)
Posted on 12/21/2007 4:46:27 PM PST by Cagey
Natalee Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after Cigna Health Care, her medical insurer, approved what it had previously described as "too experimental" a procedure. (ABC)
False and misleading headline alert. A plaintiff’s attorney seeking criminal charges to boost a civil suit is a long way from ‘Insurer...to be charged’.
this might be a “stay-tuned” sort of story...
You know .... aw, never mind.
Mark Geragos is the attorney.
They don’t call them “ambulance chasers” for nothing.
"They're the ones who caused this.
Not quite.
A prudent viewpoint.
I am sympathetic to the family, but there may be more to this story than what has been presented so far.
New liver?
Sure! I’ll just rustle one up!
Sad story, but there is no law suit here.
They don’t call them “ambulance chasers” for nothing.
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No, they call them John Edwards.
There are no charges, and no DA is considering them.
What nonsense, even for the zero shame MSM.
| freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the truth |
The first liver transplant was in 1963, and the patient died 4 days later. THAT is an experimental procedure. Liver transplants have been quite successful and wnile not routine, are definitely WAY past the experimental stage.
The first one was 44 years ago!
I hope the bean counter responsible for the refusal sees her face in his/her dreams for the rest of its miserable existance.
Coming soon to a government health clinic near you.
Welcome to the Tabloid Internet. I don't know if they used that as a lead in on their network news tonight, but I wouldn't be surprised.
This is ridiculous. This girl was on death's door because of advanced leukemia and a superimposed pneumonia. It probably would not have been appropriate to transplant this girl.
Mark Gargleguts, ey? Great.
/s
I think the reluctance was due to the rest of her physical state.
Does it make sense to use a healthy organ in a body riddled with leukemia when there are better prospects awaiting transplants?
Sad story.
Supposedly this girl was pretty far gone by the time they sought the transplant.
What will our premiums be if all procedures are granted that offer a very low probability of being successful.
The hospital could have provided the surgery pro-bono. But didn’t.’
Not everyone can be saved.
Isn't That the way heath care is supposed to work?
And if they put the liver in and it didn’t take, they would sue for that.
When there is money involved people will screw people!
Meanwhile Hillary will fix this! /S
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