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December 21, 2007
The Facts
A 17-year old died just hours after her health insurance company reversed its decision not to pay for a liver transplant that doctors said the girl needed. Nataline Sarkisyan died Thursday night at about 6 p.m. at University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.
My View
Recently I posted another story about a different health insurance company that had systematically denied coverage for their customers. Now we have CIGNA doing the same thing, which resulted in a human being dying. The bottom line is that for the purposes of not paying out claims, insurance companies have appointed themselves as doctors. Not only have they become doctors, but they make the decisions of what the patient needs and doesn’t need. In this case, CIGNA didn’t pay the money because they claimed there was no historical evidence that the transplant would do any good. Thank God our research doctors don’t have the same attitude. We’d still be trying to cure patients with blood-letting if they did. CIGNA finally changed their mind because of protester outside their Glendale, California office. Ironically, CIGNA’s slogan is “A Business of Caring“.
Big businesses will always steal from the public for their own profits. But we can do something about it. The small protest mentioned above proves that. Therefore, we the people should always be vigilante in registering our protest when people break both moral and written laws. With that in mind, the address below is where you can send a letter of protest. Join me. It only takes 5 minutes to jot down a note, put it in an envelope, and put a stamp on it. I’ve already registered my protest with them.
Corporate Headquarters:
CIGNA Corporation
1601 Chestnut Street, Two Liberty Place
Philadelphia, PA 19192
Attn: H. Edward Hanaway – Chairman and CEO
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I am going through a similar coverage problem with CIGNA as well. Funny they had no problem taking money for the premiums. I’ve been told by CIGNA that what my doctors told them is, “Just the doctors opinion”. Isn’t that why doctors go to school for all of those years? So that the doctor can be qualified enough to make a medical decision for their patient? Fight for what’s right. Make a stand. Or God forbid you just might end up like this poor young girl. You might think you have enough insurance coverage. But wait until you truly need it and find out a very scary truth. In my case, CIGNA just keeps playing the stall game waiting for me to just go away and save them on their bottom line. We’re all in much more trouble then we think!