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
i don t know of too many middle american people that could survive as far as a financial situation. bankrupt? sure. by legal definitions we are bankrupt. absolutely. we re also very fortunate that we have, you know, in philadelphia two of the absolutely amazing hospitals, st. christopher s and children s hospital, both of them are taking care of my son. those doctors have moved forward because this is what needs to be done to save kyler s life. and they ve given us the opportunity to take care of our child and let s worry about the money at the end. let s take them to court and move forward. it s wonderful to hear that. i ve seen that in cases involving my own family in the last year and it s the best part of this. yes, sir. paul van nocker kyler s father and their attorney, great thanks for your time and good luck in your battle for getting care for kyler and our best wishes to the young man. sir, thank you for your time. thank you, keith. my great pleasure. thank you.
what i do follow is how things affect my son. yep. i m not an activist, an advocate for my child. we wanted to see this part of the health care debate move forward. this is something that can be addressed. this is something that we spoke to members of congress and, honestly, we re not seeing a lot of action on it. this is not about access to health coverage. i work hard. i have health coverage. kyler actually has two health insurances covering him. this is about insurance companies making decisions instead of the doctors. you just nailed it. and boiled it down to what s essential here. i have to ask you. the philadelphia daily news reported that you re bankrupt. is that correct or is it close to being correct or is it i mean, what does it do, what does it mean in terms of kyler s coverage going on if these insurance companies con tuna have the attitude they ve had in the last few months on this case? well, what i can tell you is
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things likewise s $23 million compensation. what is washington doing about it? congresswoman michele bachmann for one is playing games poorly writing president obama s health care sitdown must be a pr stunt. why? because an aide to speaker pelosi said he thinks democrats will have to pass health care using reconciliation. quoting bachmann, it looks like democrats have already decided on a plan to pass their original legislation. a they already did pass it. b, they passed two versions and therefore, c, reconciliation would be used to change those original bills which is, d, a perfect opportunity for the congresswoman to make changes. thanks for playing. then republican senator judd gregg telling politico.com he is open to some steps on health care that could win some republican support quoting gregg, i am ready to sit down and try to be helpful. now as promised we re joined by paul van okker and his attorney. gentlemen, we appreciate your time tonight. paul, let me start off by aski