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Earlier this month, Arkansas passed a law to end health insurance discrimination against survivors of domestic violence. The change in the law was spurred by the efforts of a working group that formed at the Arkansas Women’s Health Summit in September of 2008. The Summit was convened to explore ways to improve Arkansas’ failing grade from the NWLC & Oregon Health Sciences University Report on Women's Health.
ACT 619: “An Act To Prohibit Unfair Discrimination In The Insurance of Victims of Domestic Abuse” will add “status as a victim of domestic abuse” to the list of attributes that insurers may not use as the sole justification for denying an individual coverage. The problem of survivors of domestic violence facing health insurance discrimination in 9 states and D.C. was highlighted in the NWLC report, Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women.
>> Download now: Arkansas ACT 619
>> Learn more: Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card
>> Womenstake Blog: Motivated by NWLC Report Card, Arkansas Advocates Successfully Push to Prohibit Insurance Discrimination Against Domestic Violence Survivors
