Burr voted to deny insurance to domestic abuse victims

We told you yesterday that North Carolina is one of only eight states that allow health insurance companies to classify domestic violence as a “pre-existing condition.” Well, guess who helped kill an attempt to change that horrendous situation? That would be North Carolina’s own U.S. Sen. Richard Burr. In 2006, Burr and nine other GOP senators voted against an amendment to an insurance bill that would have told health insurance companies they could not deny coverage to women because of domestic abuse. Find more details here

As the political blog BlueNC puts it today, “If that doesn’t make Burr beatable in 2010, I don’t know what does.”

This article appears in Sep 15-22, 2009.