Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:26:41 PM
...like a fish needs a bicycle.
Deborah Kotz's piece in U.S. News & World Report provides more evidence of what I wrote earlier – that some are trying to use Obamacare to punish men, especially men whose lifestyle keeps them healthy.
Supporting the government's healthcare reform efforts should be a no-brainer if you're a woman.
Specifically, a woman who is looking to punish men for being born male, and use government force to do it.
That's according to Marcia Greenberger, copresident of the National Women's Law Center, who testified at a Senate hearing last week that the health insurance industry is rife with "unfair and discriminatory practices... including gender rating, the exclusion of healthcare services that only women need, and pre-existing-condition denials."
And why do men and women get treated differently? She answers her own question...
Women get charged more, Greenberger tells me, because they see doctors more often than men do--at least before age 55.
So even people who admit the truth about this still want to make things "equal" by pretending there isn’t a difference.
Hey, don't homosexual people have higher health care costs, too? Yeah, so if you oppose Obamacare it must mean you hate the poor, women, people of color, LGBTQQUAIPP* people, substance abusers, and overeaters. You hateful bigot. You should be lining up to shell out more money so that some women you don't know can get an addadictomy.
"While some companies do charge men more from ages 55 to 65, at which point Medicare kicks in, others continue to charge women more or just give very small price breaks," she says.
Woah – where is the outrage over this?
The insurance industry, however, says it also supports fixing this problem.
Of course they do. They'll be glad if they can not only force people to buy their insurance, but force men to pay the higher rates, too.
Reproductive rights groups, like Planned Parenthood, have been launching offensives this week to ignite a little activism.
Planned Parenthood butchers babies. I just thought I would take this opportunity to point that out. Taking health care advice from a mass murderer doesn't strike me as a good idea.
(*Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Q-eer, Questioning, Undecided, Asexual, Incestuous, Polyamorous, Promiscuous)