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To: coop71
“A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders, but can include [injuries] and normal health situations, such as pregnancy, that might affect a person’s health, benefit from medical assistance, or have implications for medical treatments.

There's no cite on that Wikipedia entry that pregnancy is a medical condition, and I can find no medical dictionary that claims pregnancy is a medically recognized disease, illness, or injury. What is the medical treatment to cure this pregnancy medical condition? Someone made it up, typically a leftist with an agenda, such as trying to get their health insurance collective to pay for their abortion "cure" due to being the unfortunate victim of catching a pregnancy medical condition, no fault of their own of course.

314 posted on 06/10/2010 6:05:20 AM PDT by Reeses (Sowcialist: a voter bought with food stamps)
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To: Reeses

I asked my husband, a vice president at a major health insurance provider, if he considered pregnancy a medical condition. His response paraphrased? “What idiot said it wasn’t (he’s familiar with Bill O’Reilly’s infamous rant about the subject)? We process and pay for insurance claims for pregnancy on a daily basis. If it’s not a medical condition by modern standards then neither is impotence or hormone replacement therapy or acne...”

So I guess we agree to disagree.

And not all conditions have a “cure”. Although you could say childbirth is a cure for pregnancy and in many cases, it needs to be done in a medical setting, right?


315 posted on 06/10/2010 6:16:15 AM PDT by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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