10.31.2008

Women Buying Health Insurance Pay a Penalty

When are we going to move past the "children are a choice" argument and realize that the continuation of society depends on at least some women having babies?  

The worst part of this is that many of the women who are paying more are childless but are paying as potential childbearers.  Yes, pregnancy and childbirth are more expensive than not having children.  Yes, I am a "redistributionist" for suggesting that the costs of pregnancy and childbirth should be distributed over the full insurance pool instead of over one gender.  I also want future generations to exist and I'd prefer it if they had adequate prenatal and postnatal health care so I'm not paying their emergency room bills.   Grrrrr.

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