Blade_Runner wrote:
Why should a healthy, unmarried young man pay for abortions, maternity care, mastectomies, uterine infections, ovarian cancer, transgender surgery, and birth control pills?
Why should a healthy, unmarried young woman pay for erectile dysfunction, prostate cancer, male enhancement, abortions, transgender surgery, and Viagra?
Actually..... IF you have health insurance at all and your health insurance offers plans with coverage for those things, technically you ARE paying for those things anyways. That is how health insurance works, those insured by the provider either pay their premiums or some entity pays their premiums for them, those paid premiums cover operating costs and if the companies and shareholders get their way, healthy profit margins to boot. Every plan sold is part of those operating costs, therefore you DO pay for those things, whether you chose to acknowledge that or not. Even if your medical bills covered by your plan AFTER deductible, run as high as your premiums are set to cost... EVER seen how fast premiums can skyrocket if they aren't making their desired margins?
Insurance runs on the principle that no two policy holders are exactly alike and they count on healthier holders offsetting less healthy policy holders. That said, IF your medical bills consistently exceed your premiums, those premiums race to try to catch up. Insurance companies aren't exactly non-profit charity foundations after all, they are more akin to a casino than a thrift shop.