3.01.2013

Huffington Post Popular News: Genworth Financial Exploits Obamacare Loophole To Charge Women More For Insurance

Many women soon can thank Obamacare for ensuring that they won't have to pay higher health insurance premiums than men. But elderly women can't say the same of long-term care insurance.


Thanks to an Obamacare loophole, long-term care insurance providers can charge women more than men for the same coverage. And Genworth Financial, the largest U.S. provider of long-term care insurance, plans to charge some women higher premiums than men starting this spring, Kaiser Health News reports.


The change will apply to women who buy new individual long-term care insurance policies, Genworth Financial told Kaiser Health News.




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