News: Babies Can’t Read

From Elisabeth Rosenthal’s (author of An American Sickness) “Denials of health-insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder“:

An insurer’s letter was sent directly to a newborn child denying coverage for his 4th day in a neonatal intensive-care unit. “You are drinking from a bottle,” the denial notification said, and “you are breathing on your own.” If only the baby could read.

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