<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/394b4708-2ec4-430f-8989-f3349e9f0852/8B39C2A2-DB8D-4970-8AF4-867E4B75438E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/domestic-violence-victims-have-a-pre-existing-condition.php" href="http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/domestic-violence-victims-have-a-pre-existing-condition.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.seiu.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/domestic-violence-victims-have-a-pre-existing-condition.php"><P>Insurance companies have used the excuse of "pre-existing conditions" to deny coverage to countless Americans. From <A href="http://www.seiu.org/2009/08/robin-holland-my-brain-tumor-wont-wait-for-reform.php" linkindex="13">cancer patients</A> to the elderly suffering from arthritis, these organizations have padded their profit margins by limiting coverage to patients deemed "high risk" because of their medical condition. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/domestic-violence-victims-have-a-pre-existing-condition.php"><P>But, in DC and <A href="http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/denied_coverage/index.html" linkindex="14">nine other states</A>, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, <STRONG>insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that "domestic violence victim" is also a pre-existing condition. </STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8B39C2A2-DB8D-4970-8AF4-867E4B75438E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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