Via MSNBC.msn.com  Advocates say it’s not uncommon for people who have been abused to be denied insurance on the individual market. While the majority of states have barred insurance companies from using abuse as grounds for denying coverage [as a preexisting condition], eight states and the District of Columbia don’t prohibit denying coverage for that reason. North Carolina is one of the eight.

“Think of this, you have survived domestic violence and now you are discriminated in the insurance market because you have a pre-existing medical condition,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told leaders from women’s organizations at a press conference Tuesday.

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