Obamacare has 134 woman-only provisions ... so black feminists complain that there is no pork specifically for them. "Existing as a Black woman in the United States causes enough exposure to the stress hormone cortisol to become toxic and disrupt normal physiological and biological processes!"

C0CKPUNCHER · 2013-10-18T04:46:28+00:00

Stress does cause illness. All of which occur at higher rates amongst men. (Though they probably also occur at higher rates amongst black people).

SlicedBreddit27 · 2013-10-18T10:03:08+00:00

A little off subject but why is every word "Black" spelt with a capital ande very "white" is lower case?

Edit: words

Smallpaul · 2013-10-18T10:56:28+00:00

She claims that

Black women—regardless of their income or education levels—are more likely than their white counterparts to experience poor pregnancy outcomes.

She doesn't give any sources for that claim, only a source that shows that Black women have a much higher (almost 3 times higher) maternal mortality rate on average. There is nothing in her sources that shows that this is not linked to lower income and education levels. To me it seems that what she complains about is not strictly a health care issue, it is an outcome of socioeconomic issues on health care. I think that if Obamacare manages to give more affordable health care to more people it will most likely reduce the maternal mortality rates in all groups and reduce the difference between the groups. I don't think that Obamacare will erase all differences between racial groups, that is a much too high goal for one health care reform.

rogersmith25 · 2013-10-18T09:48:52+00:00

I wonder how that woman feels about life expectancy stats between men and women... How long have we been tolerating that?

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-10-18T12:46:50+00:00

Racial disparities in maternal health outcomes are intolerable; yet, they have been tolerated for decades.

Gender disparities in health on the other hand . . .

Black women are so oppressed, so mistreated by our cruel and uncaring system, that they barely outlive white men. Can you imagine that oppression? To just marginally do better than white men is literally the worst kind of discrimination.

Ma99ie · 2013-10-18T15:53:10+00:00

Only 137? That must pale in comparison to the number of men-only provisions...oh, wait.

xXCptCoolXx · 2013-10-18T06:18:23+00:00

I for one am outraged. Why are we not setting aside pork for African American women? Don't they need bacon too? /s

But seriously, unless there's some special disease or disorder that's an epidemic for black women why would they need special provisions? Increased stress? Oh please. I highly doubt race and gender are as good at predicting stress than something like income or occupation.

If that's the route you want to take then you could at least try to hide your bias by saying something that actually makes sense. For example, "Individuals should have their levels of cortisol tested and those with higher levels of the stress hormone should have..." whatever they seem to be advocating for.

If indeed black women have some sort of "stress epidemic" then an unbiased test of cortisol should include them and anyone else suffering. See? That's how equality works.

2013-10-18T07:23:28+00:00

being "exposed" to cortisol is a normal physiological and biological process.

2013-10-18T03:56:06+00:00

I don't even know what to say to that. I mean, you're already getting it cheaper by paying the same as men for something you use much more, which is obviously such equality. Even still, her entire article is a non-sequitur. She's basically campaigning for more equal outcomes and affirmative action. How does that relate to obamacare? It doesn't.

2013-10-19T01:04:42+00:00

"Obamacare has 134 woman-only provisions..."

If Bill Clinton was the first black president, Obama is the first female president.

skywalker2089 · 2013-10-18T11:27:40+00:00

Black feminist make my soul hurt!

nelsonblaha · 2013-10-18T13:38:11+00:00

This is a tragic abuse of statistics. The author speaks as though her personal likelihood of death in childbirth is 3x that of the average white woman, but does not take any other information about her into account, such as her healthcare status (which I suspect is the real cause of high black maternal mortality). It's unclear what exactly the author advocates doing to correct this problem, but ACA addresses it directly enough, in my opinion.

MRMRising · 2013-10-18T22:38:13+00:00

I cannot help but reflect on how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) fails me and so many women just like me.

You!?!? Try being a man living under the ACA, our premiums go up, and, we get less services than woman,...even though we pay more into the system!

JaydenPope · 2013-10-18T23:25:15+00:00

I thought "women" was universal, i didn't think it only meant white women.

Lurker_IV · 2013-10-18T17:20:05+00:00

I don't see ANYWHERE that the author of the article says she is a feminist. Also taking a quick look at her twitter feed she seems to be primarily a reproductive-rights activist.

Also she is black so her being very aware of (very real) racism is not surprising.

Give her a break folks.

2013-10-19T01:00:05+00:00

Oh, poor baby! She should try being a black man in the United States, or even a white one, for that matter. She'd probably die of a heart attack inside of an hour!

Averscer · 2013-10-18T04:58:44+00:00

I think the biggest issue here is reverse racism.

JapanGal · 2013-10-18T11:41:29+00:00

Was caught by the headline 134 women only benefits, article was not as interesting as I thought. I want to offer up MRA some of my exclusive benefits pap-smears, maternity care, ovarian tumor screening, hysterectomy, and tubes tying.

In all seriousness the one big disparity issue is the HPV vaccine only being paid from young women. Parents should be able to get the young men vaccinate too.

MechPlasma · 2013-10-18T08:00:42+00:00

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