That is what insurance companies DO!!! Insurance is not a right, and the rates you pay are based on the liklihood of succumbing to what you are buying insurance against! Sick people are more likely to need their insurance to pay, so they have higher rates. People in dangerous jobs have higher rates, and people in dangerous lifestyles or circumstances have higher rates.

And that expense is spread to the rest of the insurance companies' customers when it is not charged to the idiot who won't leave her abuser.

Oh, please. That's a fact of life. Injuries are not free because you did not deserve them.

About time they've done something sensible. I was just about ready to write the party off as worthless too. Of course, this suggests actually, that some Republicans voted yes, or they would have mentioned a split down party lines. If there WERE Republicans who voted yes, that would mean it is the DEMOCRATS who vote as a block, while the Republicans are open to a more broad range of views. Which is the real party of assholes?

A fact that completely escapes most lawmakers. By forcing insurance companies to cover practices, the rates have to be raised to provide the money for all of these services, which prices health insurance out of the reach of many.

Well, they've lost MY business. I don't want insurance companies that are going to raise my rates to cover expenses I am not so stupid as to incurr. I don't need domestic violence insurance, so why do I have to pay for it? I'll give a tiny little rat's ass about other groups' needs when the Democrats are willing to pony up the bucks for something they don't like, such as faith-based initiatives or private firearms subsidies.

Then let Senator Murray raise some funds for the cause herself, and stop indulging her "generous" impulses with other people's money.

So? Do they cover the activities of people who repeatedly do stupid things and keep it up even after being injured?

So THIS is what they do when they aren't beating up protesters at town meetings! They try to mandate insurance coverage for beating victims! So by SEIU standards, a person dumb enough to sleep in the same bed as someone who beats her to the point of needing medical treatment is a derserving victim, but people who participate in the democratic process have it coming?

These are all highly relevant factors! A person who files a lot of insurance claims is going to be someone who costs the company money, and thus is someone they are perfectly justified in charging more money! Genetic information, disablilites, health status and medical conditions are all extremely relevant criteria for establishing someone's coverage and rates! Otherwise, an application for an insurance policy is basically government-backed robbery of an insurance company. If you can't set a customer's rate based on how much they will cost you, why not simply force them to hand over a wad of cash to anyone who walks in the door and demands some money? In principle this is no different than demanding that doctors charge the exact same fee for a routine checkup and major surgery, that restaurants charge the same for steak and hamburger, that airlines charge the same for coach, business and first class seats, and so on.

The 42 states that do NOT allow this practice are partially responsible for the high costs of insurance today.