From a feminist blog we are now being informed about a rape victim being declined medical coverage. Last month we reported on the fact that the health insurance industry was considering spousal abuse victims to have pre-existing conditions.
I am really starting to think that it is time for a single payer system that discriminates against no one. Certain things that can be abused need to be regulated. Wall Street, Health Care, and the power companies.
“A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier. The woman, Kimberly Fallon, told a nurse about the previous attack and months later, her doctor’s office sent her a bill for treatment. 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.”
