Women and Healthcare: Is this a ploy?
October 20, 2009
by Amy Siskind
|Strange article yesterday in Politico titled Analysts to Democrats: Aim pitch at women.
Get ready ladies – here it comes. Back to “ole faithful” – the woman voters.
Here’s the premise of the Politico article:
With health reform still struggling among voters, analysts say Democrats are missing the chance to win over one key group — women — despite dramatic proposals to transform the way insurers treat them.
According to Politico, here’s what women get:
Maternity care would be guaranteed. Insurance companies could no longer charge higher premiums for women than men.
And insurers now allowed to label a Cesarean section or even domestic violence a pre-existing condition to deny coverage would be barred from the practice.
Strange that. Just 10 days ago, the Democratic women in the Senate got up to complain about these very things lacking in the current bills:
So I’m struggling a bit to understand how all these important issues to women were quietly added to the healthcare legislation, sight unseen. And, I’ll readily admit that I have not read the 1500 page Baucas Bill (nor do I intend to). But gee, if someone can cite for us here when and if these items were added to the bill, I’m sure we would all love to read about it. Leave a comment.
Oh, and get ready ladies – they’re coming for your support!
Thanks for the warning. I’ll make sure the chamberpots are full before they stand under my window.
Thanks for the warning. So are we supposed to be grateful that the Dems consider us an after thought? Maybe they just think that feminist communication and organizations are so weak that they can tell women anything. For me it is to the point where if the Dems are in charge of health care I know I’m going to get screwed with probably a healthy dose of misogynist contempt thrown on top for good measure.
Yes it’s a ploy. The entire saga of health insurance reform, not health care reform has been a long series of ploys, the most often deployed gambit being the old bait and switch. People think they’re getting one thing, usually something most people know would work, like single-payer healthcare aka Medicare for All, but what they’re really getting is the failed experiment of forcing people to buy junk insurance they can’t even afford. Mission accomplished, almost everyone covered! For those interested in the endless gambits being deployed against the common good in order to prop up the for-profit health insurance industry, a really good website is “Corrente”
The Shriver report actually has some good data on how true health care reform would level the playing field for women. This is a good piece with many good links:
Published on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 by RHRealityCheck.org
Media Ignores Women’s Health Disparities in Shriver Report
by Wendy Norris
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/20-4
Well Rep. Sue Myrick did something good for women’s health.
She called for federal investigation into a non-profi group called CAIR, council on American Islamic Relations-the orginizationthe Obama’s and the Jarrett’s were so cozy with back in the day.
http://www.myrick.house.gov/wakeup.shtlml
http://www.investigativeprojec.....sc/265.pdf
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