The ultimate example of corporations doing something really stupid.

Talk about welching on an agreement -

Canadian Mom Faces Million-Dollar Medical Bill For Giving Birth in U.S.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/million-dollar-baby-canadians-handed-1m-bill-after-woman-gives-birth-in-u-s-1.2107020?hootPostID=d1b7ac2b1f5d1b6246e8db1b269c36c5

""Ms. Huculak was diagnosed and treated for a high-risk pregnancy in the six months prior to departure. As Ms. Huculak is currently hospitalized and being treated for this high-risk pregnancy, any expenses incurred are not eligible under the terms of your policy," the insurance company said in a letter to the family.

Huculak told CTV there was no "high-risk pregnancy," she just had a bladder infection that caused some bleeding. Her doctor in Saskatchewan explained to Blue Cross that the infection didn't have anything to do with the early labor, but it didn't change the company's decision not to pay."

Corporations are like software - they don't think. They only do what they programmed to do. And when there's a flaw in the way they operate, they never take accountability.

But trust the Onion to already tell us this long ago ...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/insurance-company-gets-fucked-over-by-another-canc,33101/

Insurance Company Gets Fucked Over By Another Cancer Patient

"CHICAGO—Frustrated executives from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced Friday that they are getting “completely fucked over” by Allentown, PA resident Matthew Greison, a 57-year-old man suffering from an advanced form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Stressing that this is not the first issue they have had with such patients, company sources expressed their outrage to reporters over Greison's “totally unfair” comprehensive health care benefits and claimed the skyrocketing costs of his cancer treatment have gotten out of hand."