ACA: Setting aside the issue of cost.

[JoePhilly]

54. What do you think the NIH was for the past N-decades?

It was the office of men's health.

And its focus on men was so much a structural part of what it was, it was unnecessary to name it as such.

They had to create an office of women's health specifically because women's health issues had been overlooked for so long.

Where do you think the advances to heart disease came from ... certainly not from studying women. In fact, the focus on men was so great there, health care providers struggled with women who had heart disease because some of the tools for the treatment and procedures were too big to use on smaller women. They had been designed with only men in mind.

You remind me of the kid in high school who was always demanding a "white student union", because the 10 black kids created a "black student union" in a school that was 90% white.