Yes, but if you are hospitalized they will keep you shackled. Women are still kept shackled during labor in some prisons in spite of laws against it,
And inmates are rountinely denied access to feminine hygiene products.
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Generally speaking, I agree, though the issue here seems to be keeping or removing the protections in their entirety, which would put rape, ptsd, etc back along with everything else as excludable pre-existing conditions. (Someone please tell me if I’m wrong about this)
Do you think that states will actually go through and specifically reclass just these things? (Not rhetorical, actually asking) Seems like that would be political suicide for state legislators, but then again, political suicide seems to be getting harder to pull off these days…
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I look forward to the day when I don’t have to say this:
what a fucking surprise
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For certain values of “health care”.
https://www.popehat.com/2008/12/13/i-dunno-mr-mukasey-it-looks-like-punishment-to-me/
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That very much depends on your definition of “backwards.”
And they do it retroactively. As in, “we discovered that you had dysmenorrhea at 15, so we won’t be covering your uterine cancer at 50 due to a history of reproductive health problems.” Enrolling at the usual “community” rate is, after all, fraudulent, as the mediation service will rule. Oh, yeah, your insurance policy has a mandatory mediation clause.
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[2010] Do you think that states will refuse to expand Medicare, despite the whole expansion being paid for federally? Seems like that would be political suicide for state legislators…
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Yeah. Right. Like a neanderthal (Robert Pittenger) from my own state of NC just said, “People can always move to another state.” >:(
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For the most part private insurance companies aren’t flat-out refusing to sell insurance to people with pre-existing conditions any more, they’re just charging exorbitant rates for doing so and thus putting insurance out of reach in practice if not in theory.
There. FTFY
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I believe the GOP term for any such oversight group is “Death Panel”. We ought to all be talking about that as much as possible.
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It didn’t end well.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question whether 42 U. S. C. §233(a), as added, 84 Stat. 1870, precludes an action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388 (1971), against U. S. Public Health Service (PHS) personnel for constitutional violations arising out of their official duties. When federal employees are sued for damages for harms caused in the course of their employ- ment, the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U. S. C. §§1346, 2671–2680, generally authorizes substitution of the United States as the defendant. Section 233(a) makes the FTCA remedy against the United States “exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding” for any personal injury caused by a PHS officer or employee performing a medical or related function “while acting within the scope of his office or employment.” Based on the plain language of §233(a), we conclude that PHS officers and employees are not personally subject to Bivens actions for harms arising out of such conduct.
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It’s only a Death Panel if it’s not run by the Holy Hand of the Free Market.
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Please, you’re only allowed to use Republican dog whistles and talking points when making up stories about Liberals.
In this case, a death panel cannot apply to glorious America Freedom Things like unregulated scam health insurance, only to socialist evil nonsense like Obamacare, whatever that is. In particular it is used when those evil Liberals attempt to meddle with your fine non-socialist private free market Medicare.
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WTF?
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PTSD? Wow, way to fuck over the veteran base most of his supporters support. (Among others).
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Moving to another state is easy! Not like it requires tons of time, expense, work, stress…
“Some solace” = A tiny bit of solace… 
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I dont believe they want to pass a health care bill, these items feel like they are specifically targeting a group just to cause controversy.
Its more fluff in the Reality TV show.
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Oh good, that’s a 3rd preexisting condition on my list; my daughter was born via c-section. So to sum up: no birth control, no abortions, babies are precious … but you can’t have health care to have them, or for them, or to ensure you live to raise them. I know Lysistrata is a joke, but I swear to god we’re gonna have to just cut off men entirely. My husband says “this is how Children of Men really starts.”
This is also why I can’t watch Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale right now. Too fucking close to home.
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Won’t they be pissed when they find out being republican is a pre-existing condition too:
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Not just insurance company profits; the new bill also gets way-upper-income people a big tax cut.
Even if every GOP House member loses their seats, they’ll come out ahead.
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