Reply #4: Maybe if they know they're paying for it, men will go to the doctor [View All]

[Warpy]

That's why they have lower average costs, they have to be at death's door before they will ever go in. Also, they aren't the ones producing the next generation of citizens. That adds considerably to a woman's lifetime cost.

Discriminating against one group opens the door to discriminating to others: smokers, people who eat fast foods, people with family histories of heart disease and/or cancer, people with pre existing conditions. Those stinking actuarial tables are part of how we got into this mess and certainly one reason so many of us are uninsured.

We need insurance for health care. Every single person out there will whine about being cheated one way or another until he gets sick.

Then he'll get the point of being insured.