Outrage over how women are treated in the individual health insurance market has grown as the nation debates health care reform, which proposed to ban the practice known as gender-rating. Reporting uncovered examples of insurance companies refusing to cover maternity benefits and denying coverage because of past domestic violence or cesarean sections. One Colorado woman was told she would have to get sterilized to qualify for insurance.
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