A health care bill is working its way through the Colorado Senate that would mandate the end of discrimination against women in health insurance. Currently women sometimes pay up to 40% more for health care, when purchasing individual policies, than men because of maternity care. Women who are covered by group plans, generally provided by their employers, do not face the same discrimination. A bill has already passed the House, but the two bills would need to be reconciled if this one passes the Senate.
Insurance companies justify the increased premiums for women because it costs more to cover people who actually give birth to children. They say that men shouldn’t be forced to pay for women, since men don’t give birth. Call me radical, but women wouldn’t give birth without exposure to men, so in my opinion, they should both pay for the event.
Opponents to the bill have tried to compare the increased premiums for men in auto insurance to the inequities in this bill. Call me radical again, but men and women behaving differently behind the wheel of an automobile are not the same as men and women getting together in the act of procreation. In an automobile, people make individual decisions about their behavior, and if men behave differently they should be insured differently. In the bedroom, it generally is a joint decision, and they should be jointly insured.
I’m waiting to see if the final bill pays for birth control and Viagra, or only for Viagra as in the past.
Homework:
http://www.denverpost.com/legislature/ci_14682942?source=skipframe-www.statebillnews.com
Insurance companies justify the increased premiums for women because it costs more to cover people who actually give birth to children. They say that men shouldn’t be forced to pay for women, since men don’t give birth. Call me radical, but women wouldn’t give birth without exposure to men, so in my opinion, they should both pay for the event.
Opponents to the bill have tried to compare the increased premiums for men in auto insurance to the inequities in this bill. Call me radical again, but men and women behaving differently behind the wheel of an automobile are not the same as men and women getting together in the act of procreation. In an automobile, people make individual decisions about their behavior, and if men behave differently they should be insured differently. In the bedroom, it generally is a joint decision, and they should be jointly insured.
I’m waiting to see if the final bill pays for birth control and Viagra, or only for Viagra as in the past.
Homework:
http://www.denverpost.com/legislature/ci_14682942?source=skipframe-www.statebillnews.com
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