CIGNA Insurance Kills Customer

Capitalism in action:

CIGNA Insurance Company initially refused to cover the cost of the transplant for Natalee Sarkisian, saying the surgery was too experimental.

On Thursday, friends, family and members of a nurses association held a protest outside CIGNA headquarters in Glendale, urging the insurance company to reconsider.

During the protest, Natalee's mother got word CIGNA had changed its mind and would make an exception for Natalee's surgery.

But the decision came too late for Natalee.  Just after six o'clock tonight, her condition worsened.

Natalee's family took her off life support and she passed away.

If I shoot you to steal money from you, that's a capital crime. If I withhold money I owe you and you die as a result, that's business.  There's a crucial moral difference in there somewhere, I am sure.

The invisible hand is around your throat.  Although, in my experience, CIGNA (a business of caring! about their profits - $1.15 billion net income in 2006) is the worst of the worst in terms of denying coverage.

In the meantime, become an organ donor.

(Via Susie.)