SEEKING A WAY FORWARD ... since it has happened here
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Health care reform shorts: Without reform, women pay more and get less
Six women U.S. Senators speak up for reform in this short [3:17] clip. A couple of issues I didn't know about:
insurers can and do treat pregnancy or plans to adopt as "pre-existing conditions" for which they refuse coverage;
being a victim of domestic violence also leads to denial of insurance.
I found it interesting to get a look at these women. I don't watch TV (except football) so I had no visual image of most of them. They came across as rather ordinary looking, if successful adult women (no cute young things here.) Having long had a couple of women Senators myself, (one adequate, the other loathsome), I'm used to thinking of women in office. But there are still only 17 women among the 100 Senators.
Very poor approach to deny coverge to women (OR men!) who report and seek treatment for domestic violence --or even pregnancy or diabetes! When a person notes a problem and seeks to improve that, it helps the quality of their own family life, but also the EXPENSES (medical AND social) for us ALL! How SHORT-SIGHTED!!!
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Very poor approach to deny coverge to women (OR men!) who report and seek treatment for domestic violence --or even pregnancy or diabetes! When a person notes a problem and seeks to improve that, it helps the quality of their own family life, but also the EXPENSES (medical AND social) for us ALL! How SHORT-SIGHTED!!!
This is just another reason that the public option must be included in the final bill.
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