Sexist ACA: no preventative covered services offered to Men.

Le4chanFTW · 2014-01-24T16:32:11+00:00

Did you not read the big list of stuff under 15 Covered Preventive Services for Adults? Those all apply to men. If you're talking about a specific section for men only, then yeah, obviously there's nothing there.

Well-woman visits to obtain recommended preventive services*

This seems really fishy to me. It sounds like it could be exploited in some manner, like your doctor billing your annual check-up as a "well-woman visit" or something like that. It would be nice for an expansion on that bullet point.

Other than that, there's nothing that really jumps out at me as being sexist. AAA screenings being limited to one-time sounds like complete bullshit, but that's about it. I mean, you click on the link for that and it talks about how it's sooo important for early detection, and yet you are only covered for one test? That's doesn't make any sense to me. Sterilization should be covered for men too if it's covered for women as well, but the only other form of contraception available right now for men is a condom, and you can get those for free at a lot of places.

EDIT: I just noticed that number 10 is "Domestic and interpersonal violence screening and counseling for all women*." THAT I would argue is genuinely unfair, but that's about the only thing I see there that's like that. Pretty goofy that they have it in a smaller font size than everything else though. I don't know why'd they do that.

2014-01-24T16:02:22+00:00

Why any man would vote for Obama I do not know.

SporkTornado · 2014-01-24T19:15:12+00:00

There are lots of special medical programs available to women, while men don't even get prostate exams covered. And feminists will still tell me we live in a patriarchy society that is built on the oppression of women.

SanityOverZealotry · 2014-01-24T16:11:49+00:00

To be fair, I did see ONE service offered exclusively to men, it was the first one in the "adults" section.

But yeah, the disparity is still absurd.

Title	Sexist ACA: no preventative covered services offered to Men.
Author	LAMFF
Upvotes	4
Comments	7
Date	January 24, 2014 3:21 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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