unitedhealthcare pediatric prior authorization denied for toddler's lifesaving surgery: ethics experts call it a 'starvation of care'
Parents were told the two-year-old's "rare genetic disorder didn't meet medical necessity"—a phrase critics say signals the final unraveling of a society that values profit over children. The case has ignited a firestorm as pediatricians and ethicists declare that when a healthcare corporation must "authorize" a child's right to breathe, we have officially abandoned the very principle of a civilized society.