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(14,337 posts)with complications thereof. Men, obviously, don't need this coverage. My husband paid $125 a month for his insurance. I paid $165 a month for mine. Plus, ironically, I am post menopausal. OLDER women still pay more.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)not because of childbirth.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/
Per capita lifetime expenditure is $316,600, a third higher for females ($361,200) than males ($268,700). Two-fifths of this difference owes to women's longer life expectancy. Nearly one-third of lifetime expenditures is incurred during middle age, and nearly half during the senior years. For survivors to age 85, more than one-third of their lifetime expenditures will accrue in their remaining years.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)If abortion and birth control are still excluded in some states/policies in 2014, then that blue chart's not valid. Excluding women's procedures so that they have to be paid for separately or privately doesn't count as equal coverage.
RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)for spousal abuse. Just how does that get scored by the actuarial patriarchy?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/healthcare/a/femhealthcost.htm
RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)msongs
(67,478 posts)at our work we subsidize that even though we may not have a significant other female in our lives. no discounts available
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Isn't that ironic that loud voices are arguing that health insurance shouldn't cover contraception, while pregnancy is vastly more expensive?
This would be a good time for everyone else to loudly argue that they definitely want health insurance to cover birth control, because they'd rather pay for birth control than pay for someone else's pre-natal care & childbirth!
Nikia
(11,411 posts)For men with three heart attacks, two men with cancer requiring chemotherapy/and or radiation treatment, and two women with expensive chronic conditions even though I had none of those problems. There were only two pregnancies during this time period. This was for a period of five years for a company of 60 people.
Should all of us without heart attacks or cancer gotten a discount? The point of health insurance is that it spreads the risk.