Stacie Ritter stood outside health insurer Cigna Corp’s Philadelphia headquarters clutching photocopied pictures of her four-year-old, cancer-stricken daughters as she shouted "shame."
Ritter, 35, along with thousands who protested outside the offices of major health insurers last week, gives voice to the complaint that companies may reap billions from health-care overhaul even as they deny treatments.
She says her identical twins, Madeline and Hannah, now 11, were denied hormone therapy prescribed by her endocrinologist. Cigna Communications Director Chris Curran says two other endocrinologists determined the girls don’t need the drugs.
It is appalling that parents, like young, Pennsylvania mother Stacie Ritter, are forced to claim bankruptcy trying to care for their young children afflicted with cancer. more »
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