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Nataline Sarkisyan died hours after the company's reversal.
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Before Washington takes another step on health care reform, Hilda Sarkisyan wants the politicians to hear her story.
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Like, say, Nataline Sarkisyan, whose life-saving liver transplant was denied by Cigna on the grounds that it was “experimental.”
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Like, say, Nataline Sarkisyan, whose life-saving liver transplant was denied by Cigna on the grounds that it was “experimental.”
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The Sarkisyan family made repeated appeals at news conferences.
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You do also realize that the Sarkisyan case had nothing to with “for-profit insurance companies”, since she was covered under an administrative-services-only plan, so her parents employer would be the one paying for the treatment, not Cigna?
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Nataline Sarkisyan was a beautiful 17 year old California girl who died because of denial of care by her insurer.
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Sarkisyan died the very night that Cigna reversed its decision (under tremendous pressure) to deny coverage for a liver transplant.
Does Wendell Potter Both Mirror the Worst, and Model the Best in Ourselves? 2009
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Wendell Potter -- the former Cigna-spokesperson, who quit that P.R. job after his conscience got the better of him in the wake of the Sarkisyan case and who is now courageously speaking out about abusive insurance company practices -- told the Civil Justice Foundation: "HMOs and insurers are largely free to deny access to care without fear of reprisal or financial consequences."
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Back in 2007, the then 17-year old Sarkisyan was in desperate need of a liver transplant.
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