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21Nov/0937

Women and Health Care “Reform”

Recently, a couple of advisory boards altered recommendations for cancer screening for women: breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening. But for women, it's going to go well beyond screening.

Here is something that has not brought up in many of these health care debates: women use health care a lot more than men do.

Meep

Meep is a member of the Irish Catholic mafia, having a suspiciously high number of green-eyed, red-haired friends. While she doesn’t have red hair herself [except when she goes into the sun (rare for any vampire)], she does have green eyes. She’s a raving Papist and is a life actuary on the side [i.e., she counts dead people]. An amateur pain-in-the-ass [willing to go pro!], she likes covering retirement, mortality, math, and education issues.