NY Times: Health Care Reform Is a Woman’s Issue

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-09-29 00:53

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many women gain access to their health insurance through their husbands. That means that male job losses as well as the possibility of divorce leave them vulnerable. A recent report by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress estimates that about 1.7 million women have lost health insurance benefits as a result of job losses since December 2007 — 71 percent of these as a result of their spouses’ job loss.

Although fewer adult women than men lack health insurance, they seem to be more affected by insurance-related problems, including inadequate coverage. A Commonwealth Fund study released last May found that about 52 percent of working-age women, compared to 39 percent of working-age men, reported in 2007 that they had to forgo filling a prescription, seeing a specialist, obtaining a recommended medical test or seeing a doctor at all as a result of medical costs.'

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    Although fewer adult women than men lack health insurance, they seem to be more affected by insurance-related problems, including inadequate coverage. A Commonwealth Fund study released last May found that about 52 percent of working-age women, compared to 39 percent of working-age men, reported in 2007 that they had to forgo filling a prescription, seeing a specialist, obtaining a recommended medical test or seeing a doctor at all as a result of medical costs.

Fems genderize problems even when women come out ahead. The reason more women had to forgo filling a prescription, etc., is that all those men without health insurance never got a prescription, etc., to begin with. Geez.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Tue, 2009-09-29 10:05

manonthestreet

Since every and all issues are woman's issues the statement is trivially true.

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Submitted by trotter on Tue, 2009-09-29 18:07