Two beautiful souls in the past few weeks have lost the battle with their eating disorders. Some because the eating disorder held them captive which I refer as the "monster" while others fight the battle of getting insurance to cover a very fatal illness. Since when does insurance decide to denying coverage based on what is "medically necessary" Many if not all truly do want recovery and fight insurance companies hard, but sadly insurance companies keep denying coverage to an illness that no one ever asked for. If a hear patient goes into a hospital for chest pains do you deny them treatment because the heart is still beating? If a cancer patient that enters a hospital in need of life saving treatment do you deny them the right to live? Think about this, if your son or daughter was suffering from an eating disorder you would probably go great lengths to help those overcome and recover. Eating Disorders are supposed to be treated the same as a physical illness and the message is very clear that they are not being treated in this manner. Something needs to change as we keep losing beautiful, talented souls to this evil and very destructive illness. Did you know that Eating Disorders have the highest mortality rate of any other psychiatric illness or even car crashes for that matter. 23 people a day die from an eating disorder and that's every 62 seconds and this is not okay. Treatment for an eating disorder is at least $40,000 a month. A day spent in an ER is the amount a weeks worth of treatment would cost. Insurance companies are holding lives in their hands and nothing is being done about it. Write your congressmen, sign the change petition. The change starts with you!
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