For Everyone Under 50, the Affordable Care Act is Really the "Affordable Care For Women at the Expense of Men Act"

guywithaccount · 2013-09-27T21:34:34+00:00

This is a call to young men: start taking care of yourselves, and start using healthcare. It might help with some of the other MRA issues. Now that you are paying for the usage level part way to that of an average woman, you might as well use it more. This is society beginning to say to take care of yourself, and that's it's OK to.

The other thing that may not be calculated into costs, is that if men do this, then the costs for everyone will go up some to offset their increased demand. In the end, the liberal hope that increases in efficiency will make up the difference is what needs to happen. There's probably some evidence from other countries as to whether this can be expected.

As an aside, it'll be interesting to see if the environment and economy can handle everyone living this well. The other option is that an improvement in healthcare efficiency increases output without greater economic and environmental cost, and I think we better hope that's the case.

cranktheguy · 2013-09-27T17:11:06+00:00

Since I get insurance through my job and they don't change the rates based on gender or age, this doesn't affect me.

Instead of rallying to overturn this law, I'd be more interested in fighting for gender equality in auto insurance rates.

edit: Like others are saying, equality under for the sexes is something we should be for. Besides that, I like the ACA for a variety of other reasons like the removal of preexisting conditions and lifetime caps on medical care.

ilovenotohio · 2013-09-27T21:30:07+00:00

So, I'm a destitute young white male, and I'm really happy about the ACA.

Sorry to burst any bubbles around here, but this is just a transitory step between whatever god-awful insurance programs we have now and single-payer. And in single-payer, we'll all pay the same ^percentage ^of ^our ^income .

BillC618 · 2013-09-28T07:23:05+00:00

Do we really want equality with women?

Think about it. Women don't work as hard as men in dangerous jobs. They don't put in the same hours over a lifetime. Men are compensating for this by cutting the amount of effort they put into their jobs but shouldn't the employer be able to pay a worker what they think is appropriate for their business? Legislated equality is destroying this country.

Douggem · 2013-09-27T19:13:03+00:00

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smapdee · 2013-09-27T18:21:59+00:00

this article is from may 14th, probably not up to date info.

bh3244 · 2013-09-27T16:51:30+00:00

can't say i'm surprised.

dungone · 2013-09-28T00:13:34+00:00

These stats are meaningless. There is a very good reason why they limit it to those under 50. What matters are lifetime costs, years of coverage, and percentage of men covered, as compared to today.

Clauderoughly · 2013-09-27T18:29:57+00:00

Meh.. the Law of society is "man pays"

This has always been true, and will always be true.

Suck it up princess, and make sure you earn well, and don't marry. You'll be fine.

Title	For Everyone Under 50, the Affordable Care Act is Really the "Affordable Care For Women at the Expense of Men Act"
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Date	September 27, 2013 3:31 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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