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Now welcome to the Best of the Left podcast with Coops today from the Young Turks, Bill

Moyer's Journal, the Tom Hartman program, This American Life, and Rachel Maddo.

You remember last week we covered the story of Baby Alex, who was considered by his insurance

company, or the Rocky Mountain Health Plants, where when they were trying to get insurance

from Baby Alex, considered him too fat, and they flat out told him that, the family

that would be funny if they called the baby up, I'm sorry, sir, but Alex, you're too fat

and we can't cover you.

Now they called his dad and let him know and then his dad happened to be a reporter and

news anchor, so he got a little bit of media attention behind it and then everybody

was outraged and saying, come on, it's a baby, we can't put it on the treadmill, right?

And then finally, that Rocky Mountain Health Plants said, okay, okay, no mouse, you

win, we'll cover this unacceptably fat baby.

And in fact, we'll change our policy, it was of course a flaw that we had overlooked

until there was giant media attention, that we're not covering babies that are in the 95th

percentile in weight and above, okay?

Again, the kids can't do anything about it, they were born that way, all the kid was drinking

was breast milk, that's it, that's all it was feeding, right?

Well now we have the exact opposite.

Two-year-old Aslan Bates has been denied coverage because she is too skinny.

I'm not kidding, United Healthcare Golden Rule, a very ironically labeled health insurance

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