'Women Get Free Preventive Care, Men Get To Go Pee Up A Rope'

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'Women Get Free Preventive Care, Men Get To Go Pee Up A Rope
Robert Franklin posts at Fathers & Families:

The Affordable Care Act mandates well woman exams, including a variety of preventive screenings, for all women completely free of charge, no deductibles, no co-pays. But it does nothing of the kind for men. Whatever we may think we need in the way of preventive care, we pay for; the ACA leaves us on our own. When it comes to preventive care, the ACA rations our preventive care according to our ability to pay, but requires providers to screen women at no cost.

That struck me and the other signers of the petition as (a) sexist and (b) bad policy. After all, doesn't effective preventive care for men save the healthcare system money in the long term the same as it does for women? Of course it does, so, since the ACA is so much about keeping costs down that it's part of the law's name, why not go all in? Why not include men's preventive care along with women's? And that of course is in addition to the fact that, as a matter of morality, fairness and justice, men and women should receive equal treatment by public policy. Men contribute far more to tax revenues than do women, so why does the ACA short men?'