In case you missed it, Senator Burr voted against insurance for victims of domestic abuse

In DC and eight states, health insurance companies can deny coverage to victims of domestic violence because they have a "pre-existing condition."

While that statement alone is gasp-worthy, the story gets even more appalling: this issue had a chance to be ended - once and for all - in the Senate HELP Committee in 2006. At that time, an amendment was introduced to the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2006 that would have forced insurance companies to stop ignoring state laws that provided protection for victims of domestic violence, specifically when it came to denying them insurance coverage.

Ten Republican Senators voted against it, including Senators Alexander, Burr, Ensign, Enzi, Frist, Gregg, Hatch, Isakson, Roberts and Sessions. Sen. Enzi put forth a particularly compassionate argument in support of his vote when he told CQ Today: "If you have no insurance, it doesn't matter what services are mandated by the state."

While the very thought of domestic violence victims being denied health coverage in our own backyard is unbearable, the fact that ten Senators voted against stopping this practice is too much. Over the weekend, hundreds of people took action, telling Congress that we need health insurance reform now.

http://www.seiu.org/2009/09/rep-senators-voted-against-domestic-violence-victim-insurance-protection.php

God I hate this man and can't wait to vote him out in 2010.

Flat out, puke-inducing disgusting.

I can, at least, take some minor solace that the amendment was introduced by one of my Senators -- Patty Murray, WA.

Politicians & CEO's, executives etc. who are tarnished as corrupt, on the take, morally bankrupt are the ones who should be targeted with "pre-existing conditions"! Yet they're usually re-elected or selected to corporate boards or hired as advisors. And their positions are usually at taxpayer expense literally or legislatively!

How about if all the victims of domestic violence just hold a monthly group press conference, stand at the mike in tears, and invoke the forgiveness of Jesus? Then will they qualify for coverage like any sordid politician or bloated CEO???

:grr:

Is he saying only uninsured people are domestic violence victims?

Okay, I found more about the context of the quote:

At the time, Enzi defended his vote by saying that such regulations could increase the price of insurance and make it out of reach for more people. "If you have no insurance, it doesn't matter what services are mandated by the state," he said, according to a CQ Today item from March 15th, 2006.



I don't buy that, if the price of insurance were to increase because of such a regulation, GREED is the reason.

I really can't wrap my head around their way of thinking.