Comments on: Misbehavin’ Notification: Healthcare IS a Woman’s Issue

By: espressodog

espressodog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:44:53 +0000

Yes! Some of our Senators are not very enlighted. During the Finance Committee debate on the health care reform bill Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona said, “I don’t need maternity care. So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.”

Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan had been arguing that insurers must be required to cover basic maternity care. She responded with a great zinger, “I think your mom probably did.”

By: zhak39

zhak39 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:05:57 +0000

Here in North Carolina Senator Burr is trying to frame his take on health care reform as a women’s issue. In a newsletter he sent out this week he made a very clear statement upfront, “As I have stated before, I agree that we need health care reform so that Americans, regardless of whether they are male or female, can access affordable coverage.” It’s kind of puzzling that he had to proclaim that he was setting out to not discriminate specifically on the basis of gender but I guess some of his constituents needed the clarification.

He totally missed the boat on the points that you bring up and these issues need to be the crux of the health care payment system reform. According to him, the main issue in women’s health care is the rising cost of malpractice insurance for ob-gyns causing young doctors to choose different specialties. Like so many people, he equates ‘women’s health’ with a producing uterus.

Sometime I will have to point out to him that the organ that sets women apart is in between their ears, not, um, lower down.

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