Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 08:54 PM Jun 2018

This is the women trump is targeting by removing pre-existing conditions.

This is what they tried in May 2017 and what they are trying for again today.

Pre-Existing Conditions Target Women In GOP Health Care Bill


Earlier: The MacArthur-Meadows amendment, proposed by New Jersey State Representative Tom MacArthur, permits states to refuse health care coverage for certain pre-existing conditions, an alarming amount of which are female-centric.

Things like postpartum depression, cesarean sections, surviving domestic violence and, yes, even rape, are all grounds for coverage denial under this latest AHCA change.

Coverage for mammograms and gynecological services could also be denied under this new plan.

Though it's clear a majority of these conditions listed are gender-specific conditions, the amendment itself denies any sort of gender-based discrimination. It reads,

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting health insurance issuers to discriminate in rates for health insurance coverage by gender.


snip

However, Physicians for Reproductive Health advocacy fellow Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper told Elle, "Most of the people who have C-sections identify as women, so that's a shorthand for a gender discriminatory policy," and she also added, "A majority of people who get pregnant identify as women, so that's gender discrimination, straight up."



More: https://www.elitedaily.com/news/rape-pre-existing-condition-gops-new-health-care-bill/1893054

To Trump and the GOP, Being a Woman Is a Pre-Existing Condition

House Republicans will attempt on Thursday to pass their latest health-care bill, a piece of legislation that threatens to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance and interrupt critical care for people who need it to survive. (Update, 2:30 p.m.: The bill passed on a 217–213 vote.) Read closely, the American Health Care Act, or Trumpcare, also reveals the basic theory that underlies the GOP’s entire legislative wishlist on health care: the idea that being a woman is a chronic medical condition and a liability.
*domestic violence, insurers claimed, was a “pre-existing condition.”

*Pregnancy a 'pre-existing condition'

*if a woman wasn’t pregnant, if she’d previously had fertility treatments or a Cesarean section—a procedure used in one-third of all U.S. births—that could be considered a pre-existing condition.

*Insurers even turned their backs on survivors of rape who’d gotten medical care after their assaults, refusing them coverage or exploiting their trauma for thousands of dollars in higher premiums. Enduring a brutal sexual assault made a woman too risky to insure.


More: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/05/04/to_trump_and_the_gop_being_a_woman_is_a_pre_existing_condition.html


But the good news boys and girls is erictile disfunction will still be coverered. Boys got to stand tall at all times to be a manly man.

Gee, I wonder who made up all these rules on what should and should not be covered for the menz and womenz..

Oh yeah I remember now.


After they passed it through congress they were wetting themselves with glee.


About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys....

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/politics/white-house-healthcare-photo/index.html






14 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
This is the women trump is targeting by removing pre-existing conditions. (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2018 OP
Mahalo, she Cha Jun 2018 #1
Looking at those pics, this is what comes to mind: Garrett78 Jun 2018 #2
+1000 smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #9
Things like this are why Republicans stay with him. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #3
It boggles my mind Ohiogal Jun 2018 #4
There was one, on the right bottom picture partially hidden. Blue_true Jun 2018 #12
Recommended. guillaumeb Jun 2018 #5
Spousal abuse. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #11
The anti-female party brer cat Jun 2018 #6
One would hope so. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #8
Because if that isn't disgusting enough mercuryblues Jun 2018 #7
Yep. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #10
This picture represents what the real problem in America is: Turds in suits. YOHABLO Jun 2018 #13
Turds in suits. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #14

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
2. Looking at those pics, this is what comes to mind:
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 09:00 PM
Jun 2018

<img src="" alt="Image result for whites smiling at lynching"/>

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
11. Spousal abuse.
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 10:01 PM
Jun 2018

Spousal abuse is a pre-existing condition? On what fugging grounds? The fuck! Men repeatedly beating woman near to death or death is a pre-existing condition of women? So it is all her fault? I bet the menz therapy is covered. I am so incredibly angry right now and forever sad that we came to this. Do you know how many women suffer from spousal abuse? I wonder how many men in that room abuse their wives. We know Donnie does. How many others?

Thanks, guill for the recommend.

brer cat

(24,565 posts)
6. The anti-female party
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 09:37 PM
Jun 2018

rides again. Our only hope is that more and more women will realize that the republican party exists solely to screw them. Maybe they will wise up and join the big blue wave.

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
8. One would hope so.
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 09:44 PM
Jun 2018

Perhaps they should watch the Handmaidens Tale or Stepford Wives. For some it will never register, they live wrapped in their hate of 'others'.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
7. Because if that isn't disgusting enough
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 09:43 PM
Jun 2018

We are going back to the days when a woman gave birth to a child who has a heart defect and needs surgery, that is a pre-existing condition.

Hoorah for republikkklans

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»This is the women trump i...