The White House just released a video first lady Michelle Obama, focusing on health care and gender disparity. She tells a personal story about her daughter and a bout with meningitis, and what that might have looked like if the family didn’t have insurance. She includes a story of medical bankruptcy and a woman denied health insurance for a pre-existing condition. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also appears in the piece, explaining that insurance companies can charge women substantially more than men, can choose not to cover services women need, and can even deny coverage over things like domestic violence.
This new layer of the health care debate is undeniably compelling. Insurance industry discrimination against women ought to be completely intolerable.
The video premiered on the site iVillage.com. The site is also taking questions for the White House on health reform.















