• partial_accumen
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    5 months ago

    The Affordable Care Act also dictates that insurers charge men and women the same premium costs. As a young dude, I remember paying $23/paycheck for health insurance while a young woman my same age at the same company for the same coverage under the same plan was paying $147/paycheck. I had no idea that there was a difference in premium costs, nor how big that disparity is.

    Yes I pay more for health insurance now, but I’m totally fine with that. We can’t burden 50% of the population that are women with absurdly higher healthcare costs in an equitable society simply because they are women.

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        5 months ago

        Well, as of 2009, payment for health insurance premiums with both genders.

      • @zeppo
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        The point is that we should strive to have an equitable society.