If you’re a woman and you have health insurance or are contemplating getting health insurance, here’s an important question to think about. When you think of the term “pre-existing” condition, what comes to mind?

These days it’s probably diseases like diabetes, as well as health problems such as high cholesterol, excess weight, and the like. Serious health problems, diseases that can seriously impact on your quality of life, can require expensive or ongoing treatment — right? Yes…but that’s not all. And you might be shocked to find out what, for women, constitutes a pre-existing condition.

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