FLOTUS Wows with Speech on Women and Health Care Reform

[The Zaftig Redhead]

Finally, the health insurance reform debate turned its focus -- albeit briefly -- on women and girls. About time. Women make most of the health care decisions in American families, and because of our longevity we tend to use more health care services as well. Further, because a persistent wage gap deprives many women of fair pay, women also have a harder time paying for health care and health insurance. And, to add insult to injury, insurance is typically more expensive for women. Without commonsense reform, insurance companies could continue the discriminatory practice of gender rating, and women could continue to pay monthly premiums ranging from four percent to 48 percent higher for individually-purchased health care plans than men. FLOTUS Michelle Obama's first foray into the health care debate was quite welcome, and could not have come at a better time.

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[Suzanne Fields]

It seems ironic that while society expect us to have children, health care and often many employers discriminate women precisely due to that. This affects the costs of insurances, but also the attitude often is taken with us.