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Senate votes to ban gender discrimination in health insurance …

Lively debate preceded the Senate’s Wednesday vote in favor (23-15) on SB 148, which prohibits insurance companies from using gender as a factor in determining health insurance rates. … Senator Rod Adair agreed, saying, “I think this is going to pass even though it works to impose an ideological model on top of business practices. …It doesn’t matter to the Legislature, during this time of economic need and loss of jobs and income, real income, even if it raises cost of …