Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?

[ccharles000]

Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month's worth of anti-AIDS medicine.

Only later did she learn that she had made herself all but uninsurable.

Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The next thing she knew, she said, she was lying on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she had been raped. She never developed an HIV infection. But months later, when she lost her health insurance and sought new coverage, she ran into a problem.

Turner, 45, who used to be a health insurance underwriter herself, said the insurance companies examined her health records. Even after she explained the assault, the insurers would not sell her a policy because the HIV medication raised too many health questions. They told her they might reconsider in three or more years if she could prove that she was still AIDS-free.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html

[sakabatou]

1. Another reason for universal health care

Fuck the insurance companies! They'll probably say the rape was a pre-existing condition.

Haven't they done that already?

[FiveGoodMen]

5. "They'll probably say the rape was a pre-existing condition"

Indirectly, that is what they're saying.

[sakabatou]

7. *face-bludgeon*

[JVS]

2. There's a morning after drug for HIV?

[Barack_America]

3. A bit callous, don't you think?

And yes, high doses of anti-virals can help prevent an established HIV infection. It's what they do for health care workers exposed by needle sticks, etc.

[myrna minx]

4. .

:grr:

[TheMadMonk]

6. And next healthcare workers, hospital janitors, etc. who deliberately...

...court illness by working with and about sick people.

[Blue State Blues]

8. They already exclude professions in healthcare, police, fire-fighters ...

But remember, wall street made them do it.

I'm looking for the thread, but I can't remember the right search terms.

On edit: Still can't find the thread I was thinking of, but here's an article:

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/patients/articles/?storyId=29526

[Skittles]

9. disgusting