ACA: Setting aside the issue of cost. [View all]

[lumberjack_jeff]

A brief scan of the ACA

44 occurrences of the word "breast"
0 occurrences of the word "prostate"
141 occurrences of the word "women"
1 occurrence of the word "men", in the section titled "Office of women's health"

Aside from fairness issues related to the shifting of costs, (although this is a legitimate debate, I think that removing gender as a rating criteria is appropriate since I support single payer), one of the reasons that men die younger of all preventable causes is because of the bias against men's health (or bias toward women's health, if you prefer) that is explicitly written into law.

Men were only important to this law as a part of the political calculus to get them into the insurance pool to contribute to the cost of caring for women and children.

This is a serious flaw with ACA that needs to be fixed.