Women are apparently sickly and cheap...

http://www.healthcare.gov/news/facts...08012011a.html

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Before health reform, too many Americans didn’t get the preventive health care they need to stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, lead productive lives, and reduce health care costs. Often because of cost, Americans used preventive services at about half the recommended rate.

Yet chronic diseases – which are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths among Americans each year and account for 75% of the nation’s health spending – often are preventable. Cost sharing (including copayments, co-insurance, and deductibles) reduces the likelihood that preventive services will be used. Especially concerning for women are studies showing that even moderate copays for preventive services such as mammograms or pap smears deter patients from receiving services.

The Affordable Care Act – the health insurance reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 – helps make prevention affordable and accessible for all Americans by requiring health plans to cover recommended preventive services without cost sharing.

Under the Affordable Care Act, women’s preventive health care services – such as mammograms, screenings for cervical cancer, and other services – are already covered with no cost sharing for new health plans. The Affordable Care Act also made recommended preventive services free for people on Medicare. However, the law recognizes and HHS understands the need to take into account the unique health needs of women throughout their lifespan.

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When it comes to health, women are often the primary decision maker for their families and the trusted source in circles of friends. They are also key consumers of health care. Women have unique needs and have high rates of chronic disease, including diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

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Read full article for more insights into the fragile & cheap nature of girls.

Then again, maybe I'm just mis-reading the article's bias.

Silly eos women are clearly inferior to us masculine men, thats why you have evolved to loving men.

Seriously though this doesn't surprise did you see this

Shame though I've liked most of grandersons work.

And yet, they live statistically longer than males!

Noah

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Originally Posted by Noah

And yet, they live statistically longer than males!

Noah

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Technically that is due to wars killing off men earlier making the average lower, though you were probably being sarcastic

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Originally Posted by Flonne

Technically that is due to wars killing off men earlier making the average lower, though you were probably being sarcastic

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Yes and no.
Looking at the population at my grandmother's retirement home, the 80+ demographic seems to be predominantly female. Somehow I don't think it's because these ladies' husbands all died in wars and other forms of violence.

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Originally Posted by SaptaZapta

Yes and no.
Looking at the population at my grandmother's retirement home, the 80+ demographic seems to be predominantly female. Somehow I don't think it's because these ladies' husbands all died in wars and other forms of violence.

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...that only seems to further my point, I must be missing something.

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Originally Posted by Flonne

Technically that is due to wars killing off men earlier making the average lower, though you were probably being sarcastic

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What? I'm pointing out a fact!

I think we both agree, regardless of whether men die because of war, because they consume more tobacco, alcohol and drugs, or because women have more resistance to infections and degenerative diseases. Any of these three possible (?) causes require that the male population get more healthcare than the female population!

Noah

But it doesn't mean that females don't have many many more unique conditions and illnesses than their male counterparts.

Also, statistics lie when it comes to proving this stuff. Severe generalizations when statistics are taken usually overlook a lot of factors.

Also girls have cooties.

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Originally Posted by Eos

Also girls have cooties.

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A simple cootie shot can deter such parasites.

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Originally Posted by Ladon

A simple cootie shot can defer such parasites.

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They're too damm expensive though.

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Originally Posted by Ladon

A simple cootie shot can defer such parasites.

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I don't believe in vaccination. It's a conspiracy. A moose told me so.

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Originally Posted by Eos

I don't believe in vaccination. It's a conspiracy. A moose told me so.

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Now it all makes sense. I mean, housewives, geez.

Girls aren't more prone to illness, they just whinge more about it. Men live shorter lives because they are on the receiving end of said whinging.

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Originally Posted by Erich

Also, statistics lie when it comes to proving this stuff. Severe generalizations when statistics are taken usually overlook a lot of factors.

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Erich wins half a cookie! The first sentence is correct, the other is false. There's nothing wrong with statistics in itself, but when people interpret them, that's when bad thing happens.

People usually forget blinding (placebo effect issue), proper randomisation techniques, or generalize the study. If the study doesn't explain how the blinding and randomization is done, then the study is unreliable - not because the statistics are wrong, but because data about the study is missing! Look for studies which are double-blinded, placebo-controlled with no drop-outs (or state how many drop-outs there are) and which is computer-randomized - if those things are possible.

Plastic surgeons who gave their patients pomegranate juice and pomegranates before and after surgery cannot show that pomegranates have a positive effect on people, neither in general or for people who have pomegranate juice before and after surgery. People who eat a lot of fruit and care more about their health would more likely drink pomegranate juice than someone who does not eat a lot of fruit, for instance.

Studies about how cells react to certain things (such as antioxidants) does not tell how the human body would react to more antioxidants, either. It just tells us that cells in an artificially created environment will react to X in some sort of way with a certain probability in some specific confidence-interval.

Just be aware of that when checking out studies, guys!

Noah

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Originally Posted by .gov

On August 1, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted additional Guidelines for Women’s Preventive Services – including well-woman visits, support for breastfeeding equipment, contraception, and domestic violence screening – that will be covered without cost sharing in new health plans starting in August 2012. The guidelines were recommended by the independent Institute of Medicine (IOM) and based on scientific evidence.

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Laughed pretty hard at the bolded sections.

Domestic Violence Screening: This just seems to offer a chance for reduced pay if someone is desperate to be examined. I mean, what happens when they don't find anything related to domestic violence? YOU'RE FINE! ISN'T THAT FANTASTIC? WELL YOU DO HAVE A TUMOR THOUGH.

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Originally Posted by .gov

The guidelines were recommended by the independent Institute of Medicine (IOM) and based on scientific evidence.

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- AND BASED ON SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. NO CITATION LINK. THE EVIDENCE IS MISSING.
> Institute of Medicine didn't recommend guidelines based on scientific evidence.

Men die earlier because they want to. Can't blame 'em for that.