{"id":370,"date":"2009-09-15T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/09\/domestic-abuse-a-preexisting-condition-for-denying-insurance.html"},"modified":"2009-09-15T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:02:22","slug":"domestic-abuse-a-preexisting-condition-for-denying-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/09\/domestic-abuse-a-preexisting-condition-for-denying-insurance.html","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Abuse a Preexisting Condition for Denying Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

In earlier comments, Jaundiced <\/a>pointed out that there were 9 states that allowed domestic abuse to be a reason for denying health insurance care.  I was curious as to what states allowed insurance corporations – ‘company’ is too good a word for them – to deny women health insurance because domestic abuse was a pre-existing condition.  As I suggested, all were deep red states: Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming.  Add Washington, DC, governed by Congress which has been dominated by Rethuglicans for many years, and you have 9.<\/p>\n

According to Ryan Grim <\/a>at Huffington Post, <\/p>\n

In 1995, the Boston Globe<\/em> found<\/a>
\nthat Nationwide, Allstate, State Farm, Aetna, Metropolitan Life, The
\nEquitable Companies, First Colony Life, The Prudential and the
\nPrincipal Financial Group had all either canceled or denied coverage to
\nwomen who’d been beaten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When they were in the majority, Republicans in the relevant Senate committee voted against an amendment by Patty Murray that would have denied this barbaric practice.  They struck their blow for conservative compassion and family values.<\/p>\n

But then, as Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review, has made clear, wives should obey their husbands even when asked to perform public sex in sex clubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I try and try to find saving graces for these people but I just can’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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