North Dakota's insurance law & women who are beaten

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North Dakota's insurance commissioner plans to seek changes in state insurance laws to prevent any company from using domestic violence as a reason to avoid selling health insurance coverage to a woman.

A report issued last year by the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., names North Dakota as one of nine states that allow insurance companies to turn down health coverage for women who have been beaten.

Commissioner Adam Hamm said the Insurance Department had no record of any complaints from domestic violence victims in North Dakota who were denied coverage. The state's four top health insurers, which take in about 98 percent of North Dakota's market, said they did not consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition that would deny coverage, Hamm said.

It should be a national law!!

Being beaten is not a pre-existing medical condition. How utterly absurd.