The only reason this one doesn’t get a -10 is that it’s only marginally less appalling than how much President Bush hates poor kids and wants to take away their health insurance entirely. Regardless, a health insurance company once again proved that the industry has no soul when it denied Tonya Gullino of Kansas City coverage for the hospital care she received when she had a miscarriage. Instead, they told Tonya she had had an “elective abortion.” Says Tonya:

I called them and asked why they were denying the entire claim, and was told by Jane, “We do not cover ELECTIVE abortions. If you chose to terminate your pregnancy for non-health threatening reasons, BCBS will not cover it.” WTF!!!??? I asked her, “Are you saying that my records state that I had an ELECTIVE abortion, in an ER at 12 o’clock in the morning?”

Soul-less bastards. People who run health insurance companies with the sole aim of denying people coverage to make a couple extra pennies deserve a fate worse than anything my twisted imagination could possibly create.

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