Health Insurance Gender Discrimination
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on March 24, 2010
in In the News
Gender discrimination in health insurance exists. It exists in the same way that gender discrimination exists in automobile insurance. Guys pay more in one, girls more in the other.
The reason is simple. A young woman is more likely to use more health services than a young man, the same as a young man is more likely to have more automobile accidents.
Should the government be labeling this discrimination?
My answer is a most emphatic NO. This label is an insult to the real issue of gender discrimination the world over.
I think not, but a Democratic Senator just did so in his speech in the healthcare amendment debate in the U.S. Senate.
(Via C-Span2 – http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx)