Healthcare: What Do Women Want?
By: Matthew Keim
Upon reading this editorial in the Washington Examiner, I was genuinely surprised about recent polls released about women’s views on health care. The bottom line is that more women would oppose a large health care overhaul with a public option than support it.
Keep in mind that women typically vote Democratic and the woman vote was not insignificant in Obama’s move to the White House.
Between having more medical procedures done and a typical man’s refusal to see a doctor even after a finger or two are missing, women have more exposure to the health care system. The poll revealed that women would prefer private options opposed to one public option, whether because of a fall in quality or a rise in price. Most are happy with what they have and worry that funding a public option would fall on their children’s shoulders.
According to the poll, women do want a decrease in the cost of insurance (who doesn’t) and a reduction of “artificial roadblocks to a more competitive and efficient private health care system.”
That is something I can agree with.
