Mikulski: What Health Care Reform Does for Women

Senator Barbara Mikulski today took to the Senate floor to explain what the health care reform legislation does for women. Mikulski said that she was honored to play a role in making sure that the Senate ended the punitive practices of insurance companies towards women. "For too long, in too many ways, they treated simply being a woman as a pre-existing condition. In eight states, domestic violence was viewed as a pre-existing condition. You talk about being abused, you were abused by your husband, then you were abused by your insurance company. Well, we're not going to be battered any more by these companies," said Mikulski.

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[azas1949]

I love Barbara !

You tell those Repubs they're from Mars.

[mpc91]

She talks about authoritarian regimes, yet she wants to tell people how to run their businesses.

You can't talk about expanding greatly government power, which the health care bill does, and then complain about autoritarain regimes.

This is how we get authoritarian regimes, cloaked in "fairness" and "equality" and slow reductions of freedom. If it didn't look nice we'd never have it.