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Men's Health Programs Lag By A 5:1 Margin At DHHS
posted by Scott on Thursday January 25, @05:55PM
from the men's-health dept.
Men's Health This Report to Congress from Men's Health America analyzes the data and concludes that men's health is being neglected at a rate of five times women's health in terms of funding and programs. "The first-ever survey of men's health programs in the federal government has revealed that men's health trails women's health by a 5:1 margin. According to the Report to Congress: Men's Health Lags by a 5:1 Margin at DHHS, which was released today, the budget for men's health programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services totaled $963.6 million, compared to $5 billion for women's health."

Source: Report to Congress: Men's Health Lags by a 5:1 Margin at DHHS

Author: Men's Health America

Contact: Ed Bartlett, eba@intr.net

Date: January 25, 2001

Keywords: men's health statistics, health financing

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5:1 Health care (Score:1)
by Johnny Man on Friday January 26, @03:22AM EST (#1)
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Well, we all knew this didn't we. The problem has always been that the powers that be never bother checking the claims made by the feminists. They take the claims as the truth and either attack men and/or pander to women as a result. Fake statistics, lies and deceit have always been the trademarks of feminism. They are political tools used to bring about their goals. What we need now is for people to start checking on the other claims made by the feminists. If any politicain, lawmaker, sociologist etc. is brave enough to do so, they will find that the feminists have also been lying about rape, sexual harrassment, child abuse, domestic violence, battered women's syndrome . . . 1 in 4 . . . 70c on the dollar . . . the glass ceiling . . . . The Patriarchy . . . . . . repressed memories . . . . . phallic symbolism . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taking the blinders off (Score:1)
by BusterB on Friday January 26, @02:48PM EST (#2)
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It's good to see that governments are gradually taking the blinders off.

The problem in this area in the past has not so much been that feminists have been inventing statistics as that they have been promoting a fallacy: "Health care dollars not specifically spent on women are therefore being spent on men."

Just like education, the feminists' stance is that "generic" health care is men's health care. They still point to the 5 billion (or whatever) spent on "women's issues" in health care and complain that this is a tiny fraction of what's "spent on men," meaning a tiny fraction of the entire remainder of the health care budget, as though paying to heat a hospital or paying for a new MRI machine somehow benefits only men.

Finally people are waking up and realizing that there are three "health cares": generic treatments that benefit everyone, treatments for conditions that specifically affect women or affect women differently from the way they affect men, and treatments for conditions that specifically or differently affect men. By this measure, men are getting the short end of the stick by a long shot.

Hey, maybe next someone will point out that the reason most medical research was (historically) done on men is that men are considered expendable....
Feminist lies have real consequences (Score:1)
by David Byron on Friday January 26, @09:41PM EST (#3)
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I'm currently researching a site to list common domestic violence lies that feminists have propagated. The most frightening thing is that most of the sites repeating these lies are NOT feminist sites. They are police departments, universities, nursing colleges, newspaper articles, state legislators and judicial opinions. Hundreds of them.

If you look for these lies you'll find most of them have been repeated even by Congress the Presidency and the US Supreme Court. Even the most obvious lies that would have taken 2 minutes to check up on with a web search engine, and have been debunked for years and years, are actually used to support real federal laws, executive offices' implementation of those laws and supreme court decisions about the constitutionality of those laws.

And why? Because for decades the US has been a gender one-party state where men's groups have not been allowed to reply to feminist claims. Even during the hearings for the Equal Rights Amendment, men's groups were refused a voice!
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