Outrage: Man's Health Insurance Is Holding His Liver Transplant Hostage

[merrily]

1. The insurer is Deschutes County government.

The private administrator is getting paid by Deschutes County and and therefore very likely taking its cues from Deschutes County. However, this man has to appeal to Deschutes County to require the administrator to okay payment by the insurer, which is Deschutes County.

On the other hand, the Deschutes County commissioners are ultimately answerable to voters, so maybe publicity for this story will get them to do the correct thing.

As a point that is only tangentially related to the OP article, I am not so sure that the sickest people always get first priority on liver transplants, as the article states.

As with so many things, there seem to loophole ways for the wealthy to get to the front of the line.