People I know who took growth hormones when they were younger totally screwed their natural growth process. It gave them a quick sprout, then they stalled out, and became hairier than gorillas in the process.

Either way, on on earth can anyone expect their insurance company to pay for this?

At this point (especially) with his age and height, enough is enough already.

If the hormones haven't screwed him up the process has surely messed with his ideals.

Fucking stupid assholes going to have another generation of fucking idiot kids.

For decades the Dalton School has been producing Frankensteins, how is this any different?

Those in vitro kiddies are tiny.

i'm really glad i'm not short. this sounds really unhealthy.

oh please, 5'7" is perfectly FINE. that makes him an inch or two shy of average male height. i remember boys in high school shooting up several inches from 16 to 17 years of age. give this dumbass kid a hormone-free year and see how tall he gets naturally through regular frigging puberty.

I'm 5'5" and latino. Hasn't stopped me from doing anything in this crazy world.

"forced final inches"

I've seen that movie.

I only saw the first half!

lol

@nicemarmot -Cleary you don't know anything about human growth hormone. First, taking growth hormone can add more than 2-3 inches to a person's height - It depends upon when the injections are first started. In this case, 10 years old, so 5 inches of growth would not be unheard of. Second, there is absolutley no scientific connection between cancer and HGH taken when the body is lacking appropriate levels (I am not speaking of people who take hgh later in life for anti aging purposes).

Doctors can establish when the body will stop growing.This kid's endocrinologist probably determined that his allotment of hgh was too low for him to reach an average height...EVER. He is not exactly a giant at this point and growth on hgh slows just as it does with natural hormones.

It's always funny when the uppercrust learns about the downsides of inbreeding.

I wish I was a little bit taller

I wish I was a baller

I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her...

It's not bad being short

Makes it easy to contort

Different ways to bend and pretend. lol

"Yeah, like anyone else reading this wouldn't have done the same' thing if given the option that you could be 5'8" versus 4'11" when you were 17."

"I was on growth hormone twenty years ago. I had no idea it was controversial.

Babble all you want. I personally like being (just barely) of average height. The world is hard enough without it."

Sure, but the issue isn't whether this is something that the parents or children should be willing to do (go ahead, knock yourself out), the issue is whether health insurance should pay for it as an entitlement. And, I'm sorry, but there's no reason why it should be. I'm not particularly tall either (somewhere between 5'8" and 5'9") and I'd certainly like to be taller and would have probably been interested in this sort of treatment if I'd known it was available when I was younger, but that doesn't make it any less of a vanity procedure than a nose job or breast implants.

The insurance did pay for it until he reached average height. Now the asshole parents want AETNA to keep paying for some reason. They probably feel guilty for the short genes they passed down, or for the lack of nutrition he received (I have a 4-year-old who's just 6 inches shorter than this kid was when he was 10). It's hard to imagine they'll win their case though.

I was on growth hormone twenty years ago. I had no idea it was controversial.

Babble all you want. I personally like being (just barely) of average height. The world is hard enough without it.

the bigger problem is that a large percentage of americans believe personal problems can be easily solved with the magic of medicine. a quick snip, pill, injection, or suction and all your problems are whisked (or drained) away.

And they are peeping baby birds with blue eyes forced to grow so fast and abnormally large, most of them go to slaughter with painful lameness. First chicks and now kids. not surprising.