Un. Be. Lievable. In case you needed any more reasons to despise health insurance companies, health care reform advocates today are pointing out some of the mind-boggling things that some insurers consider pre-existing conditions. An industry that is widely viewed as being heartless, and thats on its better days, is being justly attacked for allowing insurers in eight states including the Carolinas, naturally to classify domestic violence victims as high-risk, or uninsurable, because being beaten up by one's mate is a pre-existing condition. Yep, the health insurance industry has a big new jewel in its Cruelty Crown.
Two things: first, denying coverage to women whove been beaten by their spouses is grotesque and clearly inhuman, and I dont want to hear some lame excuse about protecting their profits. Second, its also now clearer than ever that the insurance industry cant, or wont, properly monitor itself, which lends yet more proof that it needs a major overhaul.
Meanwhile, states can legislate against this heinous practice, as Arkansas did in April when lawmakers there told health insurers to act like decent human beings for a change.
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