Paging Doctor Grayson...

Ten months after Cigna refused to pay for her liver transplant, 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan died.

Then, after her parents tried to sue Cigna for wrongful death, a Los Angeles judge threw out the complaint, saying it was barred by a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields employer-paid healthcare plans from damages over their coverage decisions. Even though Nataline's UCLA physicians said the transplant was urgently needed to save her life, Cigna were legally entitled, under the current system, to let her die to protect their profit margin.

Now Hilda Sarkisyan is in the news again after she led a march on Cigna's headquarters demanding that the company at least apologize for killing her daughter. What did she get?

"Cigna employees, looking down into the atrium lobby from a balcony above, began heckling her, she said, with one of them giving her the finger."

The only good news? The Sarkisyans are now entitled to sue Cigna for 'emotional distress' caused by the flipping off incident.

Isn't that just the dark side of America in a nutshell? Corporations can legally kill your kid. But you can sue the ass off someone for flipping you off? Of course, I'd wish the Sarkisyans the best of luck and hope they get millions for their 'emotional distress'. But that's just making the best of a bullshit situation.

In the real world, a case based on someone flipping you off would be laughed out of court. But a case based on killing your kid? By any measure of justice and humanity, that would be a slam-dunk.

Only, as they say, in America...