We Need Single Payer 0
Anti-health care reform wingnut Congressman throws fit because it’s going to be a month before his government health care benefits kick in.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, The Chicago Tribune reminds us that the American health care insurance industry has cake, eats it too. From the Chicago Tribune:
The findings are similar to those of a 2009 report by the National Women’s Law Center that examined 3,600 individual policies across the country and found that only 13 percent provided maternity coverage.
The problems don’t stop there. If a woman is pregnant and applies for coverage in the individual market, insurers generally consider her pregnancy a preexisting medical condition and deny coverage.