the misogyny of women's health care
Oct. 21st, 2009 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The bias in all this is exhausting, but so is the lip-service paid to women's equality by executives and politicians who think this is all just fine. Fuck you. Come out and say it. We're children and chattel to you. And if we're very good and beg hard enough and don't get raped, maybe, just maybe you'll insure us and then we can be worth some cash too.
Racheline has made an excellent post about the host of things that are true and really do happen to people. Things like being told you have to wait six months for a diagnostic MRI your doctor needs to determine if your cancer is in both breasts or just one, cause oh you already had one MRI during the course of this and getting another just isn't cost effective for your insurance company. Or the awful, inherent misogyny of being told you can't possibly make up your mind about whether to have children or not so of course you can't have permanent birth control procedures. And god forbid you get pregnant, then try to get health coverage, because that's a pre-existing condition.
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The bias in all this is exhausting, but so is the lip-service paid to women's equality by executives and politicians who think this is all just fine. Fuck you. Come out and say it. We're children and chattel to you. And if we're very good and beg hard enough and don't get raped, maybe, just maybe you'll insure us and then we can be worth some cash too.
Racheline has made an excellent post about the host of things that are true and really do happen to people. Things like being told you have to wait six months for a diagnostic MRI your doctor needs to determine if your cancer is in both breasts or just one, cause oh you already had one MRI during the course of this and getting another just isn't cost effective for your insurance company. Or the awful, inherent misogyny of being told you can't possibly make up your mind about whether to have children or not so of course you can't have permanent birth control procedures. And god forbid you get pregnant, then try to get health coverage, because that's a pre-existing condition.
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Date: 2009-10-22 03:46 am (UTC)