Women pay more for health insurance than men, have more extensive health needs than men,
OK, that seems entirely logical: more health care needs, then insurance for health care will cost more. Men pay more for car insurance, men, because they die earlier, get more each year for any given amount put into an annuity…..
But the weird thing is that line above clearly is intended, in context, to mean something different. That it’s an outrage that women both require more health care and have to pay more for the insurance.
Just weird.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Alan Peakall // Oct 23, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Tim, it only seems weird because you overlook the difference beween justice and fairness: justice is the principle that condemns discrimination of which one is the victim, fairness is the principle that upholds discrimination of which one is the beneficiary.
2 Joe Noory // Oct 23, 2009 at 2:19 pm
To tell you what de-facto nationalization will lead to, I recently saw an ad on TV supporting some accessory piece of legislation about health insurance that insistend that it would and should “end discrimination in the health care premiums and fees paid by women”.
Insurance has the effect of obscuring the actual cost and value of the services used, but Obama-care will magnify that by a factor fo 100.
In effect people will be VOTING benefits for themselves from the imaginary great pot of society’s shrinking after-tax wealth, and politicians will be “making a gift” to the public of that which they take away from them.
This will all end in tears. Socialist societies rarely reform, they collapse and then require reconstruction from scratch.
3 AntiCitizenOne // Oct 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Tim,
Women get more annuity payments , so they actually get more annuity than men.
4 Tim Almond // Oct 23, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Funny, I don’t remember many women complaining about how men were unfairly treated over car insurance.
5 John Fembup // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Nor do I recall outrage from women over paying lesser life insurance premiums than men.
6 Newmania // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Its a tragedy but Insurance is the one thing I really know well . It struck me that despite the unacceptable risk posed by ‘smoke’ to bar staff the people who actually underwrite the occupation still considered it about twice as dangerous as an office job and vastly less dangerous than anything in Construction and most manufacturing .
Oh alright I `ll shut up
7 john malpas // Oct 25, 2009 at 1:18 am
Who says women have more extensive needs than men. If health care was the same as any other maintance system then a lot more money would go into keeping men alive. There is a large debt in terms of longevity in this area.
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