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>>By the numbers, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don't take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy they are otherwise.
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>>"I could understand if we could control what he's eating. But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. "There is just something absurd about denying an infant."
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>I guess my son wouldn't have got covered over there then either. He was the ultimate chubby baby. He's now several inches taller than me and thin like a whip. He has about as much body fat as Madonna

This is what I've tried to draw attention to (as well as other tragic cases and circumstances) in the many messages I've posted stating that healthcare reform is necessary here. Unless it happens to you, you assume everything is fine - because it is, for you.