High health costs hit women hardest

[ismnotwasm]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most working-age women in the United States have too little health coverage, and often forgo needed care because of cost, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They found that seven out of 10 women have no insurance, not enough insurance or are in debt because of medical bills.

"More families are making difficult choices between needed health care, making payments on mortgages or credit card debt and purchasing basic necessities," said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, a private health policy group that conducted the research.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54A43420090511



This is a horror. It's a horror for anyone to go without health care or have inadequate health care, but 7 out of 10 working women?

[ThomCat]

1. Think of how much worse it must be for woman who work in the home.

:(

[ismnotwasm]

2. God

I didn't even think of that. That puts a new spin on statistics, doesn't it? Or a a stay at home mom who relies on her husbands insurance. He loses his job, she, he and the kids--no health insurance.

I have a former patient who says he "is a poster child for the uninsured" --without going into to many details--he was misdiagnosed at one health care facility, a test/procedure that would have led to a correct diagnosis was not done because of lack of insurance. He says, and I quote "The best thing that ever happened to me was when I collapsed" That the collapse didn't kill him was a miracle, and led to a serendipitous series of events that saved his life.

[spooky3]

3. it looks to me as if women who work at home are included in the 7 out of 10

because the article referred to "working aged" women rather than to their being employed outside the home.

It's a shockingly high figure.