“Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.”

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This reads as a criticism of how health care costs can be shaped by gender, not by need alone. It points to a system that treats women as riskier customers while also relying on the realities of pregnancy and reproductive care. It lands in a discussion about unfair pricing, especially when insurance turns basic health into a penalty.

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Originally said in English.

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