SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: October 21, 2009
EXCERPT: "Newsweek's Sarah Kliff recently examined the health insurance industry practice known as gender rating and the issue's role in the health reform debate. Kliff reports that in the current individual insurance market, gender is among the many factors that health insurers "routinely use to predict a consumer's costs and thus the price of their premiums." While the insurance industry says the practice is "smart business," others call it "outright discrimination" that leaves many women unable to afford coverage, according to Kliff." more
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