Gender equality was one of the many arguments that the Affordable Care Act’s backers mounted six years ago in support of the landmark overhaul of the nation’s health care laws.
The law barred health insurers from pricing their plans based on a customer’s gender. Or, as Nancy Pelosi announced, “Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing medical condition.”
But a new analysis of 109 qualified health plans by the National Women’s Law Center and the Commonwealth Fund finds that insurers regularly refuse to cover a range of medical services that are disproportionately used by women.
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