How are you cured of being a woman?

That's a question you should be putting to the insurance companies because they're the ones who have made that call. Apparently according to their ruthless way of thinking the very fact that women have certain organs that men don't have such as reproductive organs and that women are the ones who become pregnant and bear the children they're automatically suffering from a preexisting condition, thus subject to much higher premiums. Mitt Romney could probably explain that pretty well...I suppose it could be said after a woman gets a condition specific to women that she had "retroactively" contacted a preexisting condition. Anyway, the point the speakers have been making is that under the affordable Care Act the insurance companies will no longer be able to do this to over half the population. Annie

We may understand such statements if we understood the difference between LEGITIMATE RAPE and ILLEGITIMATE RAPE (as alleged by republicans), or why a whole lot of republicans (US congressman included) believes date rape is not rape - http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/242338-i-know-why-todd-akin-believes-rape-does-not-result-in-pregnancy.html

I can tell you Bob, about once a month I wish I could find the cure. Another decade or two, I should have it . However I do have to say, it is pretty amazing to create life, but I bet the insurance company didnt think so, 18 years ago they charged $9 for a plain tablet of tylenol, not even the good stuff. I don't even want to think about what the whole visit cost. I was covered except for that damn tylenol. Even having a vasectomy is nothing in comparison to giving birth - cost wise. I cant imagine what a c-section would cost. Then there are the yearly exams that keep us healthy and hopefully catch things like cancer before it gets bad. So that it is treatable and therefore we can go on being productive members of society. Here is a point, if you were not happy with your premiums, then drop it. I haven't been insured for a number of years. So what do I do if I get sick? I pay cash. What if I dont have money and get sick? I work out a payment plan that I can afford with the provider. I make my payments and they have no problem giving me credit next time. Isn't that crazy? But it works. Now I will be forced to buy insurance that I do not want or need. what if I get catastrophically ill? I guess we cant all live forever. Or.... I could talk to the hospital billing department. Did you know that if you talk to them, show them your income, they can cut the bill more than half. Not because government pays it but because they have to overinflated prices to make up for medicare medicaid payments and the indigent. So now you have your bill cut in half, you make a payment plan to pay the rest. You make your payments. Then if you get sick again.... guess what? yep they will work with you again. Also... did you know they can NOt turn anybody away? This was not a problem we had before obamacare. Even if he says so

nothing as far as I know. And you do an excellent job of pointing out the absurdity of their fear mongering. Tell the blacks that Repubicans want to put them back in chains (when they wanted them to stay there in chains in the first place) and that the Republicans want to keep women barefoot and pregnant against their will (when it was Dems who lagged behind in the women's suffrage movement). Oh well, just keep telling the truth and maybe some will shake off the effects of the kool aide. I'm proud to be a woman, a mother and that I've also educated myself, held a job of responsibility, and can think for myself without some politician whispering fear into my ear.