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Fat babies can't get health coverage...
Quote: : 17-Pound, 4-Month-Old Baby Denied Health Insurance for Being Too Fat
Monday, October 12, 2009
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Baby Alex Lange has been denied health insurance for being too fat.
Nothing brings a smile to an adult's face quicker than the sight of a happy, chubby baby.
But the sight of 4-month-old Alex Lange, who measures 25-inches long and weighs 17 pounds, is bringing a frown to the hypothetical face of insurance company Rocky Mountain Health Plans, The Denver Post reported on its Web site Monday.
Click here to see a video of Alex Lange
Underwriters, the people who are in charge of assessing risk for insurance companies, have decided that baby Alex's pre-existing condition obesity makes him a high-risk patient and have denied him coverage.
SLIDESHOW: WORLD'S FATTEST BABIES
His parents were shocked.
"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 with Rocky Mountain Health Plans when their current insurer raised their rates 40 percent after Alex was born.
After filling out the necessary paperwork, the broker who was helping the family find new insurance called last Thursday with the shocking news that Alex, who weighed 8 1/4-pounds at birth, was being denied coverage.
At 17 pounds, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age.
His parents were told insurance companies don't take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy.
Dr.
Doug Speedie, medical director at insurance company Rocky Mountain Health Plans, told KKCO-TV, its possible for a baby to be above the 95 percentile and still be healthy, and admitted the system is flawed.
Your weight is not an absolute determinate of health," Speedie said.
Unfortunately when we try to sell people insurance, a number has to be used as a cutoff."
Click here to read more on this story from The Denver Post.
Click here for more from KKCO-TV in Grand Junction.
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Ok.
Here is the thing.
We know obesity is a health issue in this country and puts people at risk.
Also, there is no good reason why this child has doubled in weight in 4 months other than over feeding him.
In the words of Major Payne...
Take y0 titay out the boy's mouf...
Stop overfeeding the child, he stops being obese, you get insurance.
This is a case where corrective action COULD be taken.
This isn't a pre-x condition issue, its a parental stupidity issue.
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I thought this one was funny.
Too Fat For New Zealand | Dlisted
Didn't some mom sue McDonald's for making her kids fat even though she took them there everyday?
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I do feel for the kid, the parents should be slapped.
It brings up a question about pre-existing conditions I've been wondering about.
To the people who think that pre-existing conditions shouldn't matter.
If I wreck my car then go get car insurance and expect them to pay for the repairs, should they be able to turn me down?
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One thing I don't get.
People say obesity is the person's fault for eating too much.
Let me ask you this.
How is it then that my wife, who eats like a bolemic sparrow, and what little she does eat is 100% healthy, runs her self silly at work to the point she comes home covered in sweat (after a 12 hour shift of this kind of activity), and yet cannot lose weight.
But me, I eat like a slob.
If it ain't deep fried or dripping in grease and showered in salt, I don't want to eat it.
All I drink are sodas.
Even my coffee (tea actually) gets 3 teaspoons of sugar.
And I drink four cups a day!!
The extent of exercise for me is turning the ignition in my Jeep to the run position.
And yet I am as skinny as a rail.
How is it that two people living in the same environment can have polar opposites of weight versus dietary intake and exercise.
I do everything wrong, she does everything right.
And yet we look like Laurel and Hardy standing next to each other.
How in the hell does that work???
So all of you saying that all fat people just eat too much, I don't think so.
If that were the case, my wife would look like the Olsen twins went on a 2 week fasting binge and I would have trouble fitting through the front door.
Yet I am the one that's 6'3" 155lbs with a 28" waist.
I won't post my wife's measurements, but leave it to say they're as disproportionately opposite to mine...
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Serves that kid right, he made his life choices and now he must face the consequences, if we gave every baby health insurance then they will just eat, eat and eat with no regards to themselves.
I bet that baby also has incontinence as a pre-existing condition as well, so another reason he should be uninsurable
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Holy ****! I would have never gotten health insurance if I was born today.
I weighed 11 lbs 10 ounces when I was born, haha.
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Quote: : One thing I don't get.
People say obesity is the person's fault for eating too much.
Let me ask you this.
How is it then that my wife, who eats like a bolemic sparrow, and what little she does eat is 100% healthy, runs her self silly at work to the point she comes home covered in sweat (after a 12 hour shift of this kind of activity), and yet cannot lose weight.
But me, I eat like a slob.
If it ain't deep fried or dripping in grease and showered in salt, I don't want to eat it.
All I drink are sodas.
Even my coffee (tea actually) gets 3 teaspoons of sugar.
And I drink four cups a day!!
The extent of exercise for me is turning the ignition in my Jeep to the run position.
And yet I am as skinny as a rail.
How is it that two people living in the same environment can have polar opposites of weight versus dietary intake and exercise.
I do everything wrong, she does everything right.
And yet we look like Laurel and Hardy standing next to each other.
How in the hell does that work???
So all of you saying that all fat people just eat too much, I don't think so.
If that were the case, my wife would look like the Olsen twins went on a 2 week fasting binge and I would have trouble fitting through the front door.
Yet I am the one that's 6'3" 155lbs with a 28" waist.
I won't post my wife's measurements, but leave it to say they're as disproportionately opposite to mine...
There are exceptions to every rule, but let's face it, it's not like all Americans have some sort of gene defect that makes them fat that's not present in the rest of the world.
In at least 99.9% of cases, it is lifestyle choices.
The fact is, people can blame thyroid conditions all they want (and yes, some people actually have them), but NO ONE can gain more weight than the amount of food they put in their body.
Assuming a 100% absorption rate (which no one has), it's a matter of calories going in - calories expended = calories left to contribute to your weight.
If you limit your calorie intake and work hard to burn calories, math and conservation of energy laws say you will lose weight.
This is not out of anyone's control, even though some people have a harder time than others, it is not impossible for anyone.
Most people just can't accept responsibility, can't say no to a second helping, and blame genetics.
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But the kid is breastfeeding.
If you dont milk the boobs, it hurts.
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Quote: : But the kid is breastfeeding.
If you dont milk the boobs, it hurts.
So feed the kid the appropriate amount instead of overfeeding him, and just milk the rest out.
That's called responsible parenting.
Hell, the extra can even be donated.
There are charities set up to donate breast milk to babies whose mothers have HIV, but the kid came out clean.
But even dumping it down the sink is better than overfeeding your infant and making him obese, setting him up for lifelong health problems.
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But is the kid obese?
Just because he weighs more than most kids his age doesn't mean he's obese.
I was always in the 99th percentile growing up.
I am now 6'5" and 280lbs.
Perhaps the kid is simply going to be a big guy.
According to those damned weight charts, I myself am obese.
That's about as far from the truth as one can get.
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They could snip his wiener, that should take off a little weight.
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Quote: : Boy But is the kid obese?
Just because he weighs more than most kids his age doesn't mean he's obese.
I was always in the 99th percentile growing up.
I am now 6'5" and 280lbs.
Perhaps the kid is simply going to be a big guy.
According to those damned weight charts, I myself am obese.
That's about as far from the truth as one can get.
It's different when you're built like a linebacker.
You may well be in great shape, and despite the height/weight chart, your personal BMI is a better indicator.
For an infant, on the other hand...
Well, I doubt the little guy has been hitting the gym and bulking up.
I would agree that it would be sensible for a doctor to examine the actual condition of the child, but in all honesty, odds are in favor of fat.
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Insurer Changes Mind: Fat Baby to Get Health Coverage - Children's Health - FOXNews.com
Quote: : DENVER — A Colorado insurance company is changing its attitude about fat babies.
Rocky Mountain Health Plans said it will no longer consider obesity a "pre-existing condition" barring coverage for hefty infants .
The change comes after the insurer turned down a Grand Junction 4-month-old who weighs about 17 pounds.
The insurer deemed Alex Lange obese and said the infant didn't qualify for coverage.
The child's father works at NBC affiliate KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, and news accounts about the boy's rejection made national headlines.
The insurer said Monday it would change its policy for babies that are healthy but fat.
The company attributed the boy's rejection for health coverage to "a flaw in our underwriting system."
Looks like the media got the best of the heath insurer
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Fat adults and smokers should be denied insurance.
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Quote: : Insurer Changes Mind: Fat Baby to Get Health Coverage - Children's Health - FOXNews.com
Looks like the media got the best of the heath insurer
I had a feeling that all of this negative coverage would get them to change their mind.
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