Well, we recently found out that in some states domestic violence can count as a one of the many “pre-existing” conditions that allow insurance companies to deny people coverage. Today we can potentially add rape to that list:

n 2002, Chris Turner, a health insurance agent from Tampa, Florida, was drugged and raped during a business trip. When she conferred with a doctor after her assault, Turner was prescribed preventative anti-HIV drugs, and she later entered counseling to help deal with the residual psychological effects of her rape.

A few months later, when Turner was forced to buy new insurance on the individual market, she suspected, based on her knowledge of the approval process, that she may no longer qualify for coverage. She called a series of insurance underwriters and asked them about a hypothetical client who had been raped, and every insurer she called had the same response: “Nope, we won’t take her.” Turner’s treatment for her rape, it turns out, constituted a pre-existing condition that the companies said would disqualify her from coverage.

For more on how our current health care system discriminates against women, check out “A Woman Is Not A Pre-Existing Condition,” and write your representatives to demand reform.

(h/t The Line Campaign, Campus Progress, and Mic Check Radio)