which he contracted conveniento occlusive disease, they asked his insurance company health america division of coventry to pay for a drug not covered by the fda. thumbs up from health america coventry on that. that august they took out a kidney. in october they asked health america coventry to cover another drug not yet approved by the fda and thumbs up again. the cancer in remission and kyler went home. last september it came back. this time doctors had only one course of treatment. ibg radiation therapy, $55,000 per session. this time health america coventry said no. kyler is getting the treatments anyway but now the family is on the hook for $110,000 and counting and the insurance company? coventry ceo allenwise telling analysts, quote, this company knows how to control costs and we will. the company reporting a loss ratio of 82% meaning 82 cents of every dollar they got from the van nocker family went to treatment and 18 cents went to
action. we told you on tuesday about 5-year-old kyler. his father joins us presently. he has just filed a lawsuit detailing his son s encounter with real life death panels. kyler was born november 30th, 2004. he had almost three years as a typical kid until that day in june, 2007, when his mother felt a lump in his jaw and then came the bump on his head and then he couldn t walk. on july 11th, 2007, he was diagnosed with stage four neuro blastoma cancer. the 2-year-old boy began chemotherapy. they harvested his stem cells, used them later for bone marrow transplants. they cut him open to take out the primary tumor. they subjected him to radiation therapy. when he contracted a disease they asked his insurance company health america division of coventary to pay for a drug not covered by the fda. thumbs up. that august they took out a kidney. in october they asked health america to cover another drug not yet approved by the fda and thumbs up again. the cans inner remissicer in re
final analysis don t really matter much were yelling about fictional death panels. what we did not hear was the relentless work of the real death panels that actually already run our health care industry. this is a story of death panels action. we told you on tuesday about 5-year-old kyler. his father joins us presently. he has just filed a lawsuit detailing his son s encounter with real life death panels. kyler was born november 30th, 2004. he had almost three years as a typical kid until that day in june, 2007, when his mother felt a lump in his jaw and then came the bump on his head and then he couldn t walk. on july 11th, 2007, he was diagnosed with stage four neuro blastoma cancer. the 2-year-old boy began chemotherapy. they harvested his stem cells, used them later for bone marrow transplants. they cut him open to take out the primary tumor. they subjected him to radiation therapy. when he contracted a disease they asked his insurance company health america division of coventar