Sounds like a private insurance death panel to me.

All health care should be non-profit. End of story.

I would be nice if someone got this where it belongs, front page w/ the 10 names that voted against it.

By virtue of the same logic, a gunshot wound incurred in a high crime neighborhood would also be a pre-existing condition.

This would make a perfect 30 second ad. I don't have the skills but someone who does should make a youtube ad based on this. If it is good enough it will get hits and maybe earned media. Dems need only pick the low-hanging fruit to get a good bill.

I keep saying - these stories need to be pushed and pushed to put an "average 'mericun" face on health care problems . I provide this link....as to those who are most affected...seem to be Red States. Who Knew?
http://www.silentwitness.net/states/us_map.htm

We are a mean and cruel country.

I injured myself trying to get my head around that concept.

big surprise? shit, no.

misogyny is as american as apple pie.

big profits in the abuse of women...and why should the insurance companies be any dif from the beer makers?

Wow, this is horrible.

It became bad enough when women were forced to file a report even if they didn't want to after revealing they had been abused.

As adults, this should be their choice.

Now they are being discriminated against for asking for help to remain safe?

correction:

"big profits in the abuse of women...and why should the insurance companies be any dif from the beer makers?"

should be

"big profits in the abuse of women...and why should the insurance companies be any dif from the mormons and other patriarchal assholes?"

there, all better...

This boggels my mind. The insurance industry truly has no soul. And to the birthers, deathers, tenthers and all town hallers who want status quo I say "Have you no sense of decency"
To you, I say just remember what goes around comes around. Some day it may be you who are denied health coverage because of some flimsy excuse made up by the insurance company.

Waoh!! You gotta be kidding me. That is truly shocking. This should be used as a bludgeon against the insurance industry and republicans. I hope Keith Olbermann gets ahold of this one and runs with it. The worst person in the world tonight should be a 10fer. Publish those names and make them famous. Let them explain that vote.

The political party that could figure out how to mobilize the public against the Predatory Corporate State would win landslides. But are politicians smarter than yeast? Are they able to stop taking bribes from their corporate masters? No.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) launched an effort in 2006 to prohibit the practice, but it failed in committee on a 10-10 vote. All 10 "no" votes came from Republicans.

Why this isn't blasted to the media day and night by Democrats is, as always, a mystery to me....

It became bad enough when women were forced to file a report even if they didn't want to after revealing they had been abused.

As adults, this should be their choice.

Um, please tell me you're kidding, right?

If cops show up to a house for a domestic dispute and find one of the people beaten up there isn't a "choice" about whether or not a report should be filed. What you're asserting here is that a cop that has witnessed a crime turn their back based solely on the victim being scared enough of the perpetrator to ask that the police do nothing. Unless you believe that it takes two to tango and that an abused person somehow asks for it, therefore should be able to ask that their abuser not face any criminal consequences for their actions.

"But are politicians smarter than yeast? Are they able to stop taking bribes from their corporate masters? No."

Bingo.

Why this isn't blasted to the media day and night by Democrats is, as always, a mystery to me....
Because in reality there is only one snake: it just has two heads.

Of course the GOP voted against it. After all, they have to vote to protect the sanctity of marriage so these abused women shouldn't divorce and leave these guys. Rather, they should just stay and take the abuse like women did in the good old days before the liberals screwed up this country.

Like others, this item exposed how myopic my view of health insurance coverage can be. I'm suddenly persuaded single payer is the ONLY way to go. You need help - you get it. Even Medicare doesn't approach that level of coverage.

The private health insurance companies are rationing compassion.

I am shocked...shocked! (here are your winnings, sir).

I'm sure we will hear nothing of this from our cowardly representatives in Congress. They have the perfect opportunity to take the moral high ground. But as usual, they will do nothing.

With the Dems, I feel like my favorite football team has a QB that falls down everytime there is a pass rush....

Never ever expect a republican to not hate women and children so much that they can not find a way to totally screw them over for money. LOL!

I'm still trying to figure out why it is automatically assumed that republicans actually give a shit about families or human beings for that matter. Their actions paint a very clear picture of where they stand on any issue that deals with humanity.

Could somebody please publish the names of those 10 Republicans? It would be lovely to hear them explain themselves.

The SEIU us very wrong with what they say. Insurance companies sole purpose IS NOT to provide Americans with access to care. Insurance companies sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value. Only when we all start to frame the conversation accurately will the problems be understood.

I forwarded the the SEIU thing to a list-serv of big time Social Insurance policy people yesterday, I don't think this will get buried.

As I pointed out to them the next logical progression is to deny family coverage to any family where there was even a hint of child abuse. Or potential child abuse.

FYI: Got a flash from MoveOn that highlighted the "pre-existing condition" of domestic violence known to certain insurers; it urged me to call Feinstein, one of my senators -- who is, uh, ambivalent on the public option, in part because it might be too stressful right now to work on. Or something. Calling her is tough: her DC office really doesn't want to hear and you get put on hold for two minutes, no way to leave a message, then disconnected. But I called. Busy first time, then the hold msg. I called the SF office: busy. Got through to another one. But boy she makes it hard. Voters to her are, well, like flies or bugs, pesty.

Heck, why don't insurance companies just deny coverage to any one with a brain, eyes, a liver, a heart, lungs, breasts, ovaries, a prostate, arms and legs, etc. In fact, they should deny coverage to people who are alive. Talk about Ponzi schemes...

Actually, I am surprised that no insurance company has realized that any illness or disease that can be shown to have a genetic component is, by definition, a 'pre-existing condition.'

Don't the Insurance companies realize that Life is a 100% terminal disease, therefore automatically a pre-existing condition?

They are really missing out on denials...

This is why we must fight genetic testing tooth and nail.