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Insurance Premiums Higher For Women. Discrimination?
By: devona walker
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Tue, 10/20/2009 - 20:35
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According to Newsweek, gender is among a set of characteristics, like age or smoking, that health-insurance companies routinely use to predict a consumer's costs and thus set the price of their premiums.
Aside from the obvious added costs of maternity care, research has found women are more likely to visit their physicians than men and thus incur higher costs. Is that fair? (Newsweek)
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