Wow... Listening to this made me think of when I watched Sicko and they talked about what these companies would do to snake out of having to cover their clients costs. Ridiculous we need to get away from these insurance companies and go to socialized medicine.

More perspective to refute MRA claims about health care spending and the gender gap.

Our system really is sick in that it gives few incentives to young, seemingly health men to partake in preventative services. The result is multiplied down the line. Men are more likely to show up at more advanced stages of disease; now this sometimes costs payers more money, but not always. If these men die a lot sooner then their female counterparts who entered treatment earlier then, bingo, you've got savings.

Basically the system is set up to save dollars anyway it can. If that means gouging child bearing women and having young men sit on the sidelines---which means that as a group they'll die a lot soon down the road----then that's a success! A little bit too efficient for our own good, aren't we?

Years ago, i was denied because I'd had a series of tests to rule out endometriosis and other things as a cause of my bad cramping. Every test I did came up totally clean.

You'd think I'd be a great risk for insurance at that point - as I'd been tested for a lot of things and everything looked great!

But no....