Health Experience

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a break? Of course not, "Because women use the system more often, we should pay higher insurance premiums." "’Poor women and women of color are liabilities, while insured women are ‘markets’ and ‘billable’ resources." "doctors accuse ‘poor’ women of not taking proper care of ourselves or our children, or they see drug use and depression in ‘poor’ families as individual, preventable failures of character rather than as markets of economically and socially depressed community development." "’Poor’ women are more likely to be used as ‘teaching material’ in hospitals, so that physicians in training can practice the craft they will use later on wealthy private patients." (Our Bodies, Ourselves; p.683) Now when a company runs their business it seems to me that the most frequent and steady customers get all the benefits and pampering. I would think that the medical system would do the same for women. Women are the most frequent and steady abundant customer in the medical care ...

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