Editorial:
From Kaiser Health News [1]:
A provision in the 2010 health care law requiring contraceptive coverage for women without copays has gotten most of the press.
But much more is at stake for women if the Supreme Court overturns the health care law. Starting in 2014, the law bars insurance practices such as charging women higher premiums than men, or denying coverage for pre-existing conditions that could include pregnancy, a Caesarean-section birth or a sexual or a domestic violence assault.
Even excluding maternity coverage, the National Women's Law Center found that nearly one-third of the most commonly sold insurance plans charged women aged 25 to 40 at least 30 percent more than men for the same coverage [2].
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Source:
Kaiser Health News
URL:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/June/20/women-health-law-supreme-court.aspx
Date:
June 23, 2012
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