Rape Called 'Pre-Existing Condition'

Sometimes I wonder where health insurance companies find there executives, the people who make their rules for coverage. They can't possibly be human in that they lack even the faintest hint of human compassion. I've come to suspect that Blue Cross, for example, has a recruitment office in the eighth level of Hell.

• Your baby larger than average - insurance denied.
• Your toddler smaller than average - insurance denied.
• Use a pharmacy - insurance denied.
• Acne - insurance denied.
  
• Pregnant - insurance denied.
  
• Victim of rape - insurance denied.
• Beaten by your spouse - insurance denied.
  
• Have an irregular period (as do a quarter of all women) - insurance denied.

Hell, pretty much being a woman is considered a pre-existing condition and justification for denying coverage.

In California, PacifiCare denied coverage for almost 40% of applicants. Cigna denies nearly a third of applicants, Kaiser and Blue Cross denial rate is over a quarter of applicants. Source.