Couple battle to make insurers liable for coverage decisions

[ccharles000]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cigna8-2009oct08,0,5656637.story

By Lisa Girion - Surrounded by supporters, Hilda Sarkisyan marched into Cigna Corp.’s Philadelphia headquarters on a chilly fall day, 10 months after the company refused to pay for a liver transplant for her daughter.

"You guys killed my daughter," the diminutive San Fernando Valley real estate agent declared at the lobby security desk. "I want an apology."

What she got was something quite different.

Cigna employees, looking down into the atrium lobby from a balcony above, began heckling her, she said, with one of them giving her "the finger."

Sarkisyan walked out, stunned and hurt.

[Engineer4Obama]

1. I think if we are going to nationally mandate coverage

we must make insurance companies liable for any patient who dies because they were denied coverage.

[cutlassmama]

2. cold and heartless. We can only hope one day they need health care

and not receive it. Karma.

[corpseratemedia]

3. Cigna Insurance: We Murder Your Children and Take Joy in Your Grief.

MFers may they get the same wicked treatment. I hope this couple wins.