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Insurance Industry Calls Rape A Pre-Existing Conditition

October 22nd, 2009 8 Comments

When people – particularly conservatives and blue dog Dems – wail about the poor, put upon insurance companies, this is the kind of bull they’re defending.

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8 Responses to “Insurance Industry Calls Rape A Pre-Existing Conditition”

  1. Zython says:
    October 22, 2009 at 3:20 am

    Damnit, Oliver, I was going to link that as #5 on my list. Ah well, I guess I can still count it.

  2. jr says:
    October 22, 2009 at 8:22 am

    “Our poll says 100 percent of people support insurance companies calling rape a pre-existing condition”-Scott Rasmussen

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    October 22, 2009 at 9:04 am

    This is precisely the sort of sage, altruistic policy GOP reps have been working so vigorously to protect for their hapless insurance company buddies.

    They must be so proud.

  4. cj says:
    October 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    I’ve noticed that the pre-existing condition policy that these insurance companies have affect women more than men.

    A C-section, pregnancy (period), rape, spousal abuse, and plus the many family illnesses pass on to you.

    Hell being a women is a pre-existing condition.

  5. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 22, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    She said she was informed by a nurse and, later, the hospital’s billing department that her health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she “had been raped before.”

    Waiting for someone on the right to tell us why no insurance reform is needed.

    Anyone? Anyone?

  6. SpiderJ says:
    October 23, 2009 at 12:40 am

    I am shocked–SHOCKED!–to find that this comment section hasn’t exploded with conservative trolling.

  7. Dr. Psycho says:
    October 23, 2009 at 6:27 am

    Can it be, Spider J, that we have finally found something that can shame even them?

    • durablend says:
      October 23, 2009 at 8:03 am

      Can it be, Spider J, that we have finally found something that can shame even them?

      Nah, they’re just worried if they comment it’ll somehow be used against them. They’re all for these restrictions, believe you me (cuz a woman that was raped obviously was asking for it with their flagrant immorality)