ICAN is coming to DC!

ICAN Advocacy Director Gretchen Humphries and an ICAN member who faced discrimination for cesarean section as pre-existing condition were invited to come speak at a Senate hearing tomorrow. This is very exciting news. The forum is called, "What Women Want: Equal Health Care for Equal Premiums." It is geared towards providing fair coverage for women under private insurance policies.

Unfortunately as it stands now, women should expect to pay higher premiums and be denied potential coverage for "pre-exisiting conditions" such as previous cesarean, previous childbirth in general and even history of domestic abuse. While to the average person such denials seem barbaric and unconstitutional, to an insurance actuary (who job it is to come up with dollars and cents numbers) these women represent an increase in what the insurance company will have to pay out.

Hopefully the panel tomorrow will shed more light onto the unfair practices and out right gender discrimination women face when they apply for insurance.