Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"?

[Jkid]

Source: SIEU

Insurance companies have used the excuse of "pre-existing conditions" to deny coverage to countless Americans. From cancer patients to the elderly suffering from arthritis, these organizations have padded their profit margins by limiting coverage to patients deemed "high risk" because of their medical condition.

But, in DC and eight other states, including Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that "domestic violence victim" is also a pre-existing condition.

Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. It serves as yet further proof that our insurance system is broken, destroyed by the profit-mongering of the very companies whose sole purpose should be to provide Americans with access to care when they need it most. In 1994, an informal survey conducted by the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that 8 of the 16 largest insurers in the country used domestic violence as a factor when deciding whether to extend coverage and how much to charge if coverage was extended.

Read more: http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/domestic-violence-victims-have-a-pre-existing-condition.php

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Now victims of domestic violence, which is a criminal offense that has a victim can get denied?

If this isn't another reason the health insurance companies should burn in hell, nothing else will.

[kestrel91316]

1. Time to BAN insurance companies from selling health insurance at all, and

give us SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL MEDICAL CARE NOW!!!!!!!!!

[SemperEadem]

2. death panels are already in action and the insurance-lovers don't give a damb

they'd probably say that the woman deserved the beating. (/sarcasm)

[havocmom]

3. How long before they deny all claims with 'humans are mortal, a pre-existing condition'

Only a matter of time. x(

[tigereye]

4. that's shocking!

I'm speechless! :wtf:

[Greyhound]

5. This is the industry the Democratic Party is determined to save.

:kick: & R

[Lorien]

8. Yep. Save the Billionaires. They're profits are worth so much more

than our lives.

[Lorien]

6. So the victim gets victimized again? Nothing new here

it's the new American way. x(

[wicket]

7. Disgusting

[Romulox]

9. Is it more humane to deny care because someone has cancer?

It's disgusting to deny people medical care because they can't afford it. DV victims don't deserve care any more or less than anyone else--everybody deserves care.

[H2O Man]

10. That's terrible.

Indeed, it is a form of violence, in and of itself.