insurance equity
VIDEOS: Insurance Company to Peggy Robertson: Want Coverage? Get Sterilized... and By the Way, Your Son is Too Small
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
October 21, 2009 - 12:31pm (Print)
Insurance denial continued: Now we have the case of Peggy Robertson, a woman who was denied coverage because of a prior C-section and told to get sterilized, and then her son was denied coverage for holding his breath, and for being too small.
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Insurance Inequity Harms All of Us
by Dr. Philip Diamond, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
May 26, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Besides harming women and their families, gender rating -- charging women more for health insurance on the individual market -- hurts society as a whole.
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Insurance Companies Tell Congress: You Sell Us Your Soul, We'll End Discrimination
by Lois Uttley, Merger Watch
May 7, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Insurance companies would be happy to end their discrimination against women, their industry CEO says -- in return for a pledge from Congress that it will require every American to have health insurance, and that it won't create a public option.
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