WTF! BABY DENIED HEALTH INSURANCE CAUSE IT WAS TO FAT!

He's cute and cuddly, but until Monday 4-month-old Alex Lange was considered too chubby for insurance.
The Colorado baby was denied health care coverage because he tipped 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.

News reports made Alex the poster baby for national health care reform and left the insurer that rejected him so red-faced it changed its rules yesterday.

Steve ErkenBrack, president and CEO of Rocky Mountain Health Plans, said Alex's case highlighted a "flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants."

Lange and his wife, Kelli, said their insurance shot up 40% when Alex was born. While shopping for better premiums, they learned that 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 81/4 pounds at birth, but quickly put on so much weight the insurer rejected him because of a preexisting condition - obesity.

"He's healthy in our eyes," said Kelli Lange.

The frustrated parents said their child was the odd infant out in a cruel numbers game. A chart by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used by insurers puts Alex in the 99th percentile for weight and height for babies his age.

No matter how healthy the infant, most insurers wouldn't cover babies above the 95th percentile.