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Your baby is too fat': Insurer denies baby Alex Lange coverage because of weight
BY Bill Hutchinson 
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 

Updated Monday, October 12th 2009, 5:07 PM 

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'Your baby is too fat'
He's cute and cuddly, but 4-month-old Alex Lange is too chubby for insurance.
The Colorado baby has been denied health-care coverage because he tips the scales at 17 pounds and measures 25 inches.

"We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," said Alex's father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor for KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, Colo.

Lange and his wife, Kelli, said their insurance shot up 40% when Alex was born. When they went shopping for a better premiums, they shockingly leaned their baby's size matters.

"Your baby is too fat," the couple was told by an insurance underwriter for Rocky Mountain Health Plans.

The blue-eyed tyke weighed 8 1/4 pounds at birth, but he boasts as healthy appetite.

"He's healthy in our eyes," said Kelli Lange. "It's like we're being punished."

The frustrated parents said their child was the odd infant out in a cruel numbers game insurance companies play to determine who they'll cover.
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