Why Women Should Push for Healthcare Reform

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Do the fathers have no right? (and I am a women) Should he not be notified of such an issue. Many fathers are not even part of the decision making. I believe that murder is murder no matter what it is called. A heart beat is at 40 days from conception. The baby has a heartbeat, right around the time that most women find out they are pregnant. Abortion should be illegal. We should not make it easier for women to get abortion, nor should we fund it. We should provide sex education and birth control. Be proactive instead of reactionary.

missunderstood of NY 3:42PM November 11, 2009

Women are statistically higher risk. They consume more health care and cost more - which is why they pay higher premiums. How is this different from auto insurance where young males are statistically higher risk and therefore pay higher premiums?
If gender factors are eliminated the only way to cover costs is to charge men more... which will cause more of them to be unable or unwilling to afford coverage... which will further raise costs... which will cause more of them to opt out... and so on. This is a very slippery slope.
Finally, let's be clear about what "health care" is. Pap smears, preventive care, etc. make sense for everyone, which is why most plans already cover it at 100%. However, abortion and contraception are not health care. Not speaking as a religious conservative here, but as a pragmatist. Viagra and many other things aren't either - you can live a full, happy, healthy life without them. If you choose to use them fine but you shouldn't expect others to pay for them.

Thorn Turner of MN 4:30PM November 10, 2009

If women pay no more for health insurance, then men should not pay more for car insurance. This does mean rates for women would go up, but fair is fair.

John Anton of VA 12:54PM November 10, 2009

I find life is scary enough as it is, finding out I'll have to pay more than men do for good
health insurance is a staggering discovery of nightmarish porportions.It seems as though sexism still runs rampant like a parasite feeding on a otherwise healthy organism.
I have had ADHD, an attention span problem,and am still on medication for it.
I am eighteen and I still go to school and am still a dependant. I have a job at a volunteer shop that works with animals so I can use it as a referance for when get a real paying job and I find this out:I'll have to pay more than I may be able to for good healthcare.
I hope the reform of healthcare goes trough not that i think it will right away,because I believe this will go on a long time before they change it.this has been the way its been for generations an many may want it to stay that way,I hope and pray it will someday change for the better for men and women alike. back to change now, while change is a good thing not all like change or they think its to compicatied or even be to proud to see it as a good thing.
I myself don't like to o big a changes to happen but acknowledge some needs to take place or at least settle on a compromise. If the senate and hor don't want to change it much I hope they at least consider making a compromise.

Breanne Melissa still of SC 5:29PM November 09, 2009

I am a retired RN who has seen greed and profit in health care for years and time to stop this greed? I have 3 children and was married for 40 years and now a widow. I believe in God and feel that abortion is a choice for women to make for our own bodies? This is not cheap at over $500,so the poorer woman cannot afford this? Yes, we have all kinds of birth control and this at times is not always made available for free in some places? I have Catholic friends who say this is the choice to be made by each woman and are not totally against abortion even though the many priest are trying to stop any means of helping women get abortion? My husband use to say this is a womans decision why are so many men involved? Do I feel this is the best method abortion to stop having a child no but are we really educating our young men and women on how not to have babies. Where I live now my hair dresser told me we have about almost 100 in high school who are pregnant WHY? Who is going to care for these babies the guys who impregnated these young girls? I doubt this. WE need a vote in this country to be added to our elections about abortion being for or against some kind of help to those who want to get one? Maybe we women out here can set up some kind of funds to get available if our govt. controlled by mainly men cannot help in the future? We now have where men can get Viagra with insurance companies but not get birth control pills paid for, WHY? Time for all to see we need a change in health care for all in this rich country and it can be done fairly and cheaper when we take out the greed and profits. Time we care for each other in this USA or all the fighting we now do in Iraq an Afganistan where many of our men and women now die, will not have mattered at all?

Doris of GA 12:45PM November 09, 2009