Comments on: All Denials of Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions Deserve Equal Outrage

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:09:45 +0000

As a woman with multiple chronic conditions – including fibromyalgia and depression – I often have trouble explaining to others why I have such a fear of losing insurance coverage. Denial of coverage is why. No matter how much I do to make a good life, it could be gone in an instant because of the decision of an insurance company.

Thank you for writing this.

By: PharaohKatt

PharaohKatt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:09 +0000

CTD: No, not interesting, logical. In Australia, you can get coverage for pre-existing conditions. My health insurance covers them. Generally the waiting period is long (12 months instead of 3-6) but they’re covered. Seriously, the way the American system is run is incredibly fucked up. Just look at the ways other countries do it.

Cara: Excellent post! Thank you for writing it. (Here via Feministe)

By: jovan byars

jovan byars — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:56:14 +0000

As you may well know, South Carolina is one of the eight states that can deny coverage to victims of domestic violence. That is wholly unacceptable for a state that has ranked in the Top 10 in the number of women killed by husbands/boyfriends in 13 of the 14 years that domestic violence stats have been kept.

While victims of domestic violence have been denied coverage in other parts of South Carolina, no victim of domestic violence has been denied coverage in the Aiken area as of September 30. I hope that Congress passes a bill that would make it illegal to classify domestic violence as a preexisting condition, because I am outraged that insurance companies in SC are denying women coverage because she was abused by her husband for weeks and weeks.

I saw a story about this on the news yesterday afternoon:

http://www.wrdw.com/health/headlines/64445972.html

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:11:23 +0000

I’m claiming that we should not have any kind of health care system whatsoever in which any person is denied any kind of medical care that they need. Period. So, if the insurance industry can’t accommodate that — and I do not doubt your assertion that they can’t — then they have absolutely no business whatsoever being the system under which our health care is managed, or deserve any seat at the table with regards to reform.

By: CTD

CTD — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:23:45 +0000

So, are you claiming that actuarial risk calculations have no place in insurance?

Because that would be an… interesting way to manage an insurance pool.

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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:49:51 +0000

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By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:31:12 +0000

Y’know, maybe we should campaign to have testosterone (the naturally occuring type) regarded as a pre-existing condition. Just a thought.

By: Annie Mcfly

Annie Mcfly — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:01:31 +0000

Wow, thanks. I think I finally get it now.

By: Cara

Cara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:47:53 +0000

lol, thanks Anna. I didn’t think that I’d done anything recently to deserve a sly dig, so I was hoping it was dry humor :) I haven’t read it; will add to my list.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:55:53 +0000

:( When editing, I took out the bit of “copious amounts of free time” being sarcasm/dry humour. It may be obvious, but just in case – I know you don’t have lots of time, and I don’t know how easy the book is to track down.