‘I had to carry my baby for 7 days after he died because of my health insurer’

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EXCLUSIVE: 'I've already lost my baby and now this,’ a Nevada mother tells Rhian Lubin of the agony she endured after losing her son at 18 weeks, compounded by a health insurance company’s initial decision to deny her treatment in the hospital

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uring her 18-week baby scan, Blanca and her husband watched anxiously as the sonographer spent 10 minutes searching for signs of life. “I could tell there was something wrong,” she recalled of that late-August scan.