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Healthcare: "Congressman compares women to smokers"
Posted: Nov 10, 2009
What do women and cigarettes have in common?
Higher healthcare premiums.
Therefore, being a woman must be a pre-existing condition, right?
Not exactly. But a Republican congressman from Texas got caught with his foot in his mouth during a late-night meeting of the Rules Committee last week.
Remainder of article: http://rawstory.com/2009/11/congressman-compares-women-smokers/
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Why is viagra covered? - NJ
[ In Reply To ..]Half of the Viagra prescriptions were covered shortly after it came out. But women were still having a hard time getting birth control pills covered.
Why?
Because men are still running things. And they want their Viagra.
NJ
Viagra treats a condition...sm - elaine
[ In Reply To ..]Not that I think it's fair that women have limited access to birth control, but erectile dysfunction is a disorder. Fecundity is not. :)
Preventative medicine - NJ
[ In Reply To ..]Right ya are. The system doesn't want to deal with wellness and preventative medicine if it can get out of doing so.
Funny how both birth control and birth itself can be denied while that Viagra gets covered.
NJ
Yep, NJ. I think you nailed it. (sm) - Nikki
[ In Reply To ..]It's absolutely ridiculous and just another thing to blame women for if their method of birth control doesn't work. As long as MEN are enjoying themselves, then why should anyone care about the women?
(Plus some pharmacists who will refuse to sell birth control to women because it goes against the pharmacists' religious beliefs. Just soooooooooo many things wrong here.)
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