An Insurance company refuses to  Insure a 4 month old baby because they considers his weight issue a preexisting condition. 

The baby was born a normal 8.25 pounds but a few months later was up to 17 pounds and other than someone teaching it’s mother something about nutrition and parenting , because her claims that she only breast feeds him is bogus.

The baby is chubby butotherwise in overall good  healthy. 

You should be outraged just like I was, first to the mother for what I consider negligence, even though I must say without all the facts and figures I am just letting my mob mentality show.

But on face value the proposition of letting your baby balloon like that is quite the dangerous and negligent feat. 

But you should be more outraged that even in this day and age, some corporation will pull something like this. I am curious on their rationale for pulling such a stunt and believe me it is. 

The preexisting condition issue is center stage in the health care legislation reform, insurance companies had so much leeway in denying coverage for those they deemed higher risk.

In a capitalistic system where the bottom line is prevalent, that twisted rational is there, insuring that baby is bad business without cause for ethical standards. 

It costs an upward of $13000 a year to treat someone with a chronic disease like diabetes but a healthier person costs an average of $3000 and for someone whose sole motivation is protecting the bottom line, refusing coverage to a diabetic is always looked upon as a cost saving measure. 

My outrage however is about self governance, we are giving these guys some lee way in the new legislation as we did before, these guys cannot govern themselves. This is a practice that is rooted deep their cultures, deny deny deny, we should know by now that private corporations cannot and will not self govern and the shenanigans in this case just proves that. 

Obviously after the story broke, they quickly tried to stem the bad PR by saying they had changed their rules and will now insure the kid but to me that’s just what that is, staving off bad PR. 

Anybody remember a few months a go when some auto executives boarded their private jets to go to Washington to beg for funds or the AIG executives taking bonuses for running the company to the ground and forcing the government to bail them out, these people just do not seem to get it. 

Corporate greed is  a major problem in America today included is the corrosion of ethical standards and unless the government puts a handle on that, no legislation even universal health care will be effective.