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"I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Jen Doll over at The Atlantic Wire, who likes to tackle some of the grittier women&amp;#x27;s issues head-on. I emailed this recent post she wrote, called &amp;quot;The Inherent Inequality of Health Care for Women,&amp;quot; to a whole bunch of ladies, dying to get their takes on it, and our conversation was so heated, that I knew my other friends (that&amp;#x27;s you!) needed a crack at it, too. So, come read and answer: Do you think the current health care system has a big, fat gender gap already built-in? In her blog post, Doll argues that health care is set up to be unfair to women because they actually pay more for the same health coverage as men, citing facts from Robert Pear&amp;#x27;s New York Times article that show two plans--one from Illinois and one from Kentucky--where women pay up to 53 percent more than men with the same coverage. Additionally, in 90 percent of states, best-selling health plans are more expensive for women. (This is the part where you say &amp;quot;wow,&amp;quot; or at least think about why I did.) Doll asks a really interesting question about the issue as a whole: Why has gender rating been considered acceptable in the first place? According to insurers, women use health care more and &amp;quot;are more likely to visit doctors, to get regular checkups, to take prescription drugs and to have certain chronic illnesses.&amp;quot; Paying (literally) for being responsible? Hm. Something &amp;#x27;bout that just doesn&amp;#x27;t sit well with me. Let&amp;#x27;s discuss: Do you think that health care is unfair to women specifically in its current incarnation? Should gender rating be banned? Photo: Thinkstock P.S. Could you get fired for using birth control? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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