claim: "in some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence."
author: michelle obama
evidence_1: may 4, 2017 ... she's worried about how the new health care law won't carry protections for all  people with pre-existing conditions. she is relatively healthy, but before  obamacare, she had a hard time getting insurance because of what some  companies considered a pre-existing condition: she is a domestic violence ...
evidence_2: oct 9, 2009 ... washington -- eight states and the district of columbia don't have laws that  specifically bar insurance companies from using domestic violence as a pre- existing condition to deny health ... another woman told murray that she didn't  report that she'd been battered because she feared losing her coverage.
evidence_3: oct 6, 2013 ... in 2009, first lady michelle obama made a statement similar to the first part of  moore's claim. she said it was legal in some states to regard domestic violence  as a pre-existing condition and use it as a basis for denying health insurance  coverage. politifact national rated obama's statement true because at ...
evidence_4: in 1994, the women's law project (wlp) and the pennsylvania coalition against  domestic violence. (pcadv) ... she was denied health, life, and mortgage  disability insurance by two insurance companies because ... denied coverage  based on domestic violence and to stop victim-blaming insurance practices that  denied.
evidence_5: despite this scrutiny, many states still permit insurers to consider domestic  violence victimization in access, coverage, and insurance rating .... terry  fromson & nancy durborow, insurance discrimination against victims of  domestic. violence, pa. coalition against domestic violence & women's law  project 1 (1998), ...