Does US Health Care Discriminate between Men and Women?

Is there a difference between a Female who has Colon Cancer, or other Cancers and Males who have Quintuple Bypass Heart Surgery, Colin Cancer or Prostate Cancer? Do Females who Have Breast Cancer get more treatment than Males who have Prostrate Cancer and do Females who have Cervical Cancer get better treatment tha Males who run in Marathons?

they should hang their heads in shame.

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- Natalie Kupferberg, Montana State Univ. Lib., Bozeman

We haven't been thrown off our insurance because of health reasons, we just don't have insurance, period.

Ever notice how so many conditions go undiagnosed in a woman because it's a man's illness? Or vice-versa?

How about when doctors don't listen to you - the patient - and just whip out their rx pads and give you pills that have worse side effects than the ailment you went in for? That happened to me - and eventually all the doctors just dissed me. Why? Because I'm a woman? Maybe. I wanted an MRI. Doctor said no. Because he knew so much? So much that he misdiagnosed me and made me worse? Gave me worse problems than I went in for? Or was it because the insurance company didn't want to pay for the MRI?

How many lives could be saved if decisions could be made by the PATIENTS? What if doctors actually cared about finding the ROOT of a problem, rather than seeing who can sell the most pills to please their drug company gods? What if doctors and patients could work together to fix a problem - rather than being told by some number cruncher at an INSURANCE COMPANY what we can and can't do to improve our lives and even survive? Because insurance companies see stats and say "she's a woman - that's statistically a man's illness" and won't pay for treatment, or "he can't have breast cancer, he's a man."

It's sickening how this system works. Who even cares about curing a patient anymore? It's all about the money. Greed, greed, greed.

are to require coverage for conditions that are exclusive to or more common in women and children.

And let's not forget all those plans that cover Viagra, but won't pay for birth control.

I'd say our worst problem right now (and it's an emergency of gargantuan proportions) is not whether women are discriminated or not in the medical sphere, but the fact that SO MANY people have zero health care because health care in this country is not a right.

men and the findings applied to everyone. So a lot of medicines that worked for white men didn't work for women, and vice versa. A lot of doctors think a lot of women's problems are in their mind. Not sure if that applies to a lot of male patients, but I've met a lot of women who get this and been subjected to it myself.

While this may not be intentional discrimination, the ramifications are still the same.

The California Supreme Court yesterday agreed to decide whether doctors had a legal right to refuse to perform artificial insemination on a lesbian.

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/conf061506.htm

Had nothing to do with insurance coverage. Went to my family doctor about painful gyno symptoms. He referred me to a GYN, who quickly decided it was all stress from getting a divorce a year earlier. That same week I went back to family doc (a fabulous doc BTW) who ran the tests himself and also referred me to GYN #2 - which took 2 weeks as a new patient and a "fit in" to his surgical schedule 10 days later (would have taken 8 weeks if not for family doc pushing). The consensus is that I could have at least saved ovaries if faster treatment had been done.

Those who can barely pay for an incurable illness like diabetes or cancer have the most difficulty saving money for retirement or to help their children. There is no such thing as being too young to have a medical problem and even those who have been paying premiums for years are equally dumped on regardless of gender..and told they have a preexisting condition!!

Gender has nothing to do with paying premiums for decades, and then losing this coverage once diagnosed with a medical problem!! :grr:

the usa health care system does discriminate between men and women, heart disease being a number one killer of women, yet be a thin women and try to get accurately diagnosed of heart disease, good luck

my mom was almost killed because she reported being tired and the stupid doctor tried to give her an anti-depressant instead of checking further, after all, a woman of a certain age who is slim but of an age to be losing her physical beauty must be bitter and depressed, it's impossible for her to be in need of quadruple bypass surgery

she did get the surgery in time but only because she finally had a severe classic chest pain attack which allowed the doctors to figure it out

too often a diagnosis of depression is given to women, who are presumed to be bitter and unhappy just by virtue of being women, instead of a real investigation taken of their symptoms

not all the time, maybe not even a majority of the time, but it happens enough to be a real risk to women -- and this happened to my mom in the 21st century not the last millennium either

NEVER accept a diagnosis of depression until other symptoms are ruled out, the lost time in getting care for cancer or heart disease could be deadly