FINALLY some good news re:the health insurance reform bill and women's health

[hrafn]

With 61 votes in favor, the Senate passed the Mikulski Amendment.

Via http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1363920.html:

The bill would end the practice of basing rates on gender, now allowed in most states. The Mikulski plan, which won

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[eanja]

Love the right to life people. I suppose it makes backward sense- if you can't get a pregnancy test, you won't know you're pregnant until it's too late for an abortion. And if as result women get crappy prenatal care, and completely wanted kid ends up with health problems, or their mothers die of cancer because they couldn't get a pap smear or mammogram, well, that's not a problem.