Under new healthcare bill, rapes and Caesarean sections are pre-existing conditions

[Lucky Luciano]

I really had to check whether this was fake news after I saw someone talking about it on Facebook - because of course this is too crazy to believe...but there is nothing to low for these cretins.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/under-new-healthcare-bill-rape-is-a-pre-existing-condition.html

An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault.

Pre-Obamacare rape survivors who sought treatment for their injuries could be denied health care later on. Under Obamacare, preexisting conditions were guaranteed to receive coverage — among them, sexual assault. The American Health Care Act is going to change that.

The new MacArthur-Meadows Amendment will allow states to discriminate based on medical history, reportedly without addressing the subsequent high cost of health care for millions of Americans.

In addition to rape, postpartum depression, Cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions. Companies can also deny coverage for gynecological services and mammograms.

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[SummerSnow]

1. So if my husband decided to rape me and kick my ass, it's a pre-existing condition?

But what if I chop of his thing , is that a pre-existing condition?


Wow, they really hate women

[Freddie]

2. And states can make pregnancy coverage "optional"

Which would force a woman of childbearing age to buy a very expensive rider. Or pay full price for pregnancy and childbirth care. Or do the most cost effective thing - an abortion. Brought to you by the pro-life party.

[Doreen]

3. You mean making pregnancy itself a pre existing condition?

Like if you have ever been pregnant not just currently pregnant?

[bluecollar2]

4. Having a vagina is a pre-existing condition

Ergo...

Any medical situation arising out of the fact that you have a vagina then becomes a consequence of that pre-existing condition...

I'm no expert but it seems that is the thought process...

Not covered for rape, menstruation, vaginal infections, pregnancy, birth control....

[Doreen]

5. Basically, females are born as a pre-existing condition.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Trevor Noah wrote a book titled "Born a Crime"

He was born mixed race in Apartheid So. Africa, and suffered because of that.. Good book.

but the point being, as you say, here they are penalizing women for being born.

[Doreen]

7. Maybe they should think about no women after they kill them all and see where that get them.

[riversedge]

8. rec.