[sammyg2]

Knee-jerk before details or facts, as usual.
I talked about this to a couple I know, who both happen to be practicing physicians. This is basically what they told me:
The girl was dying. She was very sick, and giving her a transplant was nothing more that wishful thinking. At best it would have prolonged the inevitable a little. She was going to die with or without the transplant. When you have leukemia and chemo and your internal organs shut down (as was the case with her, liver, lungs, etc) it is all over.

The insurance coverage clearly spelled out what it would pay for and what it would not. This type of operation was clearly not covered.
Question:
Why didn't the parents OK the operation and agree to pay for it?
Answer, because they knew it was an excersize in futility. The docors had to have told them that. They were grasping at straws but only the ones that someone else had to pay for. Not them. Freaking hypocrites, now they are suing.
I should sue them for not providing that operation to their daughter. They are the ones that denied her that operation, all the HMO did was not agree to pay for it. they never said she couldn't have it, only that someone else would have to foot the boll.
If only they were illegal immigrants they could have gotten all the medical care they wanted for free.