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Money Up Front??? What happend to the fact that the hospital had a liver available, but refused to transplant without money up front? If this hospital was truely concerned about the patient and not their money, they would have provided the transplant, and then followed up on the appeal process through the insurance. Let's put the real blame where it lies, on the hospital for being money hungry, not on the insurance company for administering the policies benefits like they were suppose to........

Anybody out there got access to the Cigna corporate email list?

If you work for Cigna, you do. Just download the corporate email list from your email reader at work (Outlook or whatever) and email it to your external email account (gmail, hotmail, whatever).

Then post the file on-line (along with job titles), so we can all express our holiday wishes directly to the individuals involved.

Any questions on how to do this, email me at corporateweasels@gmail.com.

Who eventually received the liver? What if that person had been denied the liver because of Natalines's receiving the liver -- and if Nataline's chances of survival on receiving the liver were so much less then the "next" in line is that really the right use for a very need resource? What about the hospital could it not have absorbed the cost of the transplant and then later argued it out with the insurer especially if it was successful thus proving their "plea" accurate? In Philadelphia -- at Einstein Hospital many people from New York and New Jersey are receiving new livers here in a Philly Hospital because the "waiting list" in New York City area is so great. How can the people in Philly who need a liver transplant be absolutely sure that their "Philly Liver" is not going to a New Yorker simply because they can afford or have better medical coverage. Transplants very well may bring out the best in us -- the offer to give a new life to someone, and the worst in us because we may come to believe that our life should be preserved over another's.