insurance and women's health

Few people realize pregnancy is one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" we've heard so much about. But the push/pull between insurance companies and reproductive health does not stop there. My roommate Ella, a labor and delivery nurse in the Bronx, sent me this blog post which features a woman who was denied coverage due to a previous (completely unremarkable) Cesarean section, and told she could only eligible for coverage if she was willing to have her tubes tied.