Rape is a pre-existing condition?

October 23rd, 2009

Here’s your daily dose of gigantic incredulous WTF? (Emphasis added by me.) Apparently, according to Blue Cross, once you’ve been raped you get kind of used to it? So next time it’s really not a big deal. After that your vagina is pretty much open for anyone’s business, and the aftermath of people forcefully inserting their body parts into you requires neither medical attention nor mental health assistance.

Rape Victim’s Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?

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.”

via Rape Victim’s Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?.

Filed under: political malfeasance, the feck?, women's issues | Comment (1)

One Response to “Rape is a pre-existing condition?”

Dim Reaper on October 25, 2009 6:54 am
The point here is one that we already know – insurance companies are run by money-grabbing, back-stabbing bastards.

They are quite happy to take your money for years on end, but then when you need to make a claim they suddenly want to check that you meet all of the criteria in their small print so that they can avoid paying out. Doesn’t matter if it’s health, life, home, travel or car insurance – they will try their very best to weasel out of paying up when the time comes.

Got to admit though that this one is particularly low.