Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:00:00 PM
Looks like we should all want Obamacare because it will help women at the expense of men. At least, that is what I picked up from this article by David Lightman of McClatchy.
Women of child-bearing age routinely pay more for health care because they're women.
Guess what? Men and women are different. They have different health needs, and thus different costs.
If they're pregnant, they can be legally denied coverage.
Pregnancy is a choice, right? That’s what the feminist groups and the abortionists have told us. There is abstaining from intercourse, there are numerous forms of contraception, there are different kinds of abortion, there is also tubal ligation and hysterectomies.
Women face other problems in today's insurance market: They tend to need more preventive care and therefore are subject to more co-pays and deductibles,
Like I said, men and women are different.
and single heads of households are often women, meaning they're responsible for the family's health care bills.
Well, yes, Remember pregnancy is a choice. And aside from rape (where there is still the legal options of abortion, safe surrender, and various forms of adoption), women choose who to let into their bodies and when. Being a parent is a choice. Women also tend to be much more likely to file for divorce than men, and more likely to get custody. So, this is largely a self-inflicted situation. Isn't feminism great?
Legislation now being considered by Congress to overhaul America's health care system would dramatically change the rules, and there's general agreement that this is a problem that needs fixing.
Huh? General agreement? Maybe in certain socialist (especially female) circles. This sounds like yet another way to force men to pay for the decisions of women.
Bills moving through Congress would end the longstanding practice of basing rates on gender, which is allowed in most states.
Well, hey, why not? If we're going to prevent taking other preexisting conditions into account, why would we pay attention to the differences between the sexes?
Legislation also would eliminate co-pays and deductibles for preventive care, require maternity coverage to be offered at reasonable rates and provide financial help for those who couldn't afford coverage.
Who determines what is "reasonable"?
Younger women are usually charged more for coverage because they tend to use more health services than men. The National Women's Law Center found that women ages 15 to 44 spent 68 percent more on health care than men during those years.
Oh, but who cares? Let men pay! It makes sense to charge a man who has intentionally remained unmarried and childless more to cover for a woman he doesn't even know and her kids, right?
More women are in lower income brackets, making it hard for them to get coverage.
It isn’t because a lack of opportunity. Women outnumber men in higher education, especially in higher degree programs, and businesses have had outreaches to recruit women to higher paying careers.
"Women are in double jeopardy," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky , D- Ill. "They earn less than men, so even if we were charged the same premiums they would pay a bigger percentage of their income, and women are usually charged more."
Oh, so why don't we reverse the situation and make men pay MORE than women, since "men earn more", and thus can pay more? C’mon – you know you want to, "equality" not withstanding. It's "fairness", right?
This smacks of another instance of "Women don’t need men, except it comes time to pay bills."
My wife worked hard to get through school and get a career that would provide health insurance. She didn't get knocked up. She married me - someone else who had taken the steps to have a career with health insurnace - and only after we married did we go ahead and have kids and she joined my health insurance. Does my wife have some magical power? Well, she is not your average gal, that's for sure. But any women could do what she did if she just puts her mind to it.
This kind of Obamacare will punish responsible men and women - especially men.