WTF ??? - I Should Get My Health Insurance Cheaper Because I Don't Have A Vagina ??? - Is That...

[WillyT]

what we've become ???

Has to have been sarcasm... has to be... Nobody could be THAT stupid.



Talk about your divide and conquer.

[WillyT]

1. I'm Sorry... I Didn't Hear An Answer... Please Defend This Bullshit !!!

[mysuzuki2]

2. should you get life insurance cheaper if you do?

Just askin'

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Please explain why you think life insurance and health insurance are comparable.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Are they not both insurance?

Traditionally, women's medical insurance was more expensive because women's lifetime healthcare costs are 30% more.

[mysuzuki2]

10. insurance is insurance

How do we want it to work?

[leftstreet]

3. Well...people expect cheaper rates if they don't smoke

Where's all this controversy coming from anyway?

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Actually the government requires a discount as "social engineering" to discourage smoking.

Perhaps you think we should discourage vaginas?

[leftstreet]

8. LOL Check this box if you have no gall bladder

Look how much I could save if I had my tonsils removed!!

omg I see some 'social engineering' potential here...

[dsc]

15. sorry but that is just plain bull crap

The law does permit insurers to charge the different rates but by no means requires them to.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. You are correct, the ACA allows the surcharge, it doesn't require it.

The point remains the same. The surcharge is there to discourage smoking.

[dsc]

17. No it is there because smokers cost more

to insure. I assume they aren't trying to discourage people from growing old, and they are allowing age to be used as a factor in rates. It also is very easy to verify smoking unlike some other risk factors.

[seabeyond]

22. actually studies show smokers cost less. they die off quicker and use less of the resources,

effectively costing less. but we like to hold to the old myth cause surely they should be penalized for saving everyone money....

[dsc]

23. certainly life insurance has an issue that is valid

if they die sooner. I also think that the end of life costs in many cases still add up. My mom's were fairly high.

[seabeyond]

24. it doesnt. there was a study a year or two about it and became a roar, and died. cause really, why

would anyone want to embrace the concept that the smoker does not cost more, but less, when we all have an agenda.

[dsc]

25. if they die earlier then of course life insurance is going to be more expensive

[WillyT]

9. Some Of The Responses Here:

DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023938561

[leftstreet]

12. Oh my

Missed that one

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. No. That only works for car and life insurance.

Personally, I think that it was prudent to remove gender as a rating criteria, but it has the effect of raising mens insurance 15% and lowering women's 15%.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Or you should pay more because you have a prostate

... now where'd I leave those rubber gloves ...

[MADem]

13. Everyone who walks this earth, pretty much, was involved with a vagina at some point in time.

They either were created with one at the ready or they transited through one during their birth.

Yeah, there's the odd test tube babies and caesarean births, but for the most part, if it ain't here, we ain't here.

I don't see a slew of angry women complaining about prostate cancer screenings, either. So there's that...

Healthy babies grow into healthy adults who contribute to social security...but lets not look that far down the road, much more fun to be shortsighted and complain that someone is "getting over" on the system!

[WillyT]

14. Exactly !!!

[cynatnite]

26. +++1000 n/t

[TBF]

18. Right wing meme of the day - probably straight from the Heritage Foundation.

[seabeyond]

19. more than a handful and more than just yesterday and today. ya. that stupid. nt

[Pretzel_Warrior]

20. the right wing is tricky. they are on an "all fronts" attack

blasting out misinformation, negative spin, etc. across the gamut just like that little shit bag DeMint said they would.

[TBF]

21. Not that tricky - when they start every other OP with

the same meme it's coming from somewhere and it's quite obvious. And yes I believe it's coming straight from DeMint.