17-year old Nataline Sarkisyan passed away yesterday while waiting for Cigna to approve her liver transplant. Yes, you read that right. APPROVE her liver transplant. She couldn’t even get on the donor lists because they withheld approval, claiming a transplant was not proven “medically necessary”. She had had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia that caused liver damage.
Long-time readers of this blog know what hell I went through to get Sticks’ meds approved. What a minor blip on the radar that was compared to this! Jason Calacanis just twittered this:
#$k you Cigna: Nataline Sarkisyan
Here’s the heartbreaking video her sister made. My heart goes out to her family. The Mahalo page has a pretty complete lists of links regarding Nataline.
Update: Jason Calacanis is calling for 1M Bloggers to write posts entited “Screw You, Cigna”
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