Let’s face it, some people are just fat and lazy, and the rest of us shouldn’t have to pay for their health care. Take the case of Alex Lange. He has never held a job. In his age group, he is as fat as they come. He mooches off his family. Not to put too fine a point on it: he’s a parasite. Private insurers have, naturally, declined to extend coverage; and bleeding heart liberals would have government take over health care so that the rest of us can pick up the tab.
This is America, damn it, and we shouldn’t have to stand for this sort of thing. Oh, I’m sure some do-gooders are going to bitch and moan about how Mr. Lange is only four months old, but we can’t coddle these kids. Personal responsibility is the only way people, including Mr. Lange, will learn that their choices have consequences. So, bravo, Rocky Mountain Health Plans for your bold stand against indolence and free-riders. With luck, the fascist-communist plan to take over health care will be thwarted and fat babies will continue to be denied health care, as Nature intended.
Update The insurance company caved: “Fat baby can get coverage after all, insurer says.”
Hyperbole can be fun, but this? Absurd. Better to make your case on the average person, and not the extreme, don’t you think?
And yet, there is a four month old child with no insurance because he’s too fat. I can’t agree that the absurdity started with me.
Don’t go judging corporations by their actions.
mike – practical choice— is this case ridiculous? then know that it’s gonna be used
My memory is too faulty to remember all the details, but this story from the 80s or 90s sticks with me because of personal circumstances: A California couple was expecting a baby and since they had several children with a genetic disease, they wanted pre-natal testing (amniocentesis?) to make their nine-month wait a little less nerve wracking. Their insurance company would approve the testing, but stipulated that if the baby was born with the disease, upon it’s birth, insurance would be denied. This is an expensive disease. The couple felt they were being pressured to have an abortion. The company ultimately had to change its position and extend the coverage. I don’t remember if the baby was born healthy or not healthy, but that’s not my point.