Newborn Dies After Insurance Company Denied Coverage

After a health insurance company denied coverage to a sick newborn baby, it resulted in the death of the young child. The newborn hardly lived for 10 days after he was denied coverage by a reputed health insurance company in Texas. The baby was born with a condition known as the d-transformation which happens when there is a transposition of the great arteries in the heart.

This is not a major sickness but it can be fixed with a major surgery which the insurance company could not pay. The insurance company has deemed the condition as a pre-existing one as the baby was born a few days earlier.

Since the disease was considered as a per-existing one, the company refused to cover the health care of the baby and due to which the baby could not have the surgery. Unfortunately the baby died after few days and it is truly a big tragedy especially for the parents. However, the new health care bill has brought a new hope. Under the new health care no health insurance company can deny a coverage to a child with pre-existing conditions. This health care initiatives from President Barake Obama will bring a big change and chance for those babies born with minor or major diseases to live as they should.