pre-existing conditions
By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 30, 2009 - 11:55am
What do pro- and anti-choice lawmakers, advocates and others have to say about abortion in health care reform efforts? In good news, the latest version of health care reform legislation includes tremendous boons for women's health. And assisted reproductive technology findings come too late for Nadya Sulyeman...
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After being drugged and raped on a business trip, I received counseling and anti-HIV medications to help me survive. But to insurance companies my rape and treatment were "pre-existing conditions."
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As health care reform moves into the closed-door, intra-party negotiation phase, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is emerging as a champion of a public option, though she has wavered about how tough that plan should be on payouts to providers.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 20, 2009 - 12:18pm
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with other Senate leaders to discuss health reform legislation. During this brief video Senator Reid expresses his support for a public option in the final health care bill, and also declares the time has come to end denial of health insurance based on sex, disability and other "pre-existing" conditions.
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 19, 2009 - 12:57pm
Health care reform measures currently making their way through Congress would radically alter health care coverage for women in this country, for the better. Why don't most American women know this?
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By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check October 13, 2009 - 6:00am
This weekend my husband broke the news to me -- his company is switching to a new health insurance plan...and our out-of-pocket expenses for giving birth will increase a 100 percent.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor September 18, 2009 - 11:48am
Think everything is ok with the health system? Maybe if you are a fetus. Otherwise, prepare to suffer under the mountain of pre-existing conditions for which insurance companies are seeking to reduce or eliminate coverage. C-sections are considered a pre-existing condition and the lack of maternity care coverage is justified because "having a child is a choice."
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