It's illegal (Title VII violation, if by the government, an equal protection violation) to offer differential health care benefits on the basis of sex, even if (even though) there are statistical differences in the populations.
--- JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> Jenny Brown wrote:
> >> The pressure on women to marry is already
> enormous, health insurance
> >> simply adds to that suffocating weight.
> >
> >But the share of the U.S. population that's never
> been married has
> >been rising. In 1990, 18.9% of women had never been
> married; in 2005,
> >21.6%. And the health insurance environment has
> never been harsher.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Although I'm sure it's not the main factor, this
> would be consistent with the
> narrowing gender benefits gap in full-time
> employment--health insurance is
> less likely to come with a job, but also less likely
> to be gender-biased than,
> say, 25 years ago. (As I recall, it seems to be
> loosely tracking the gender
> pay gap.)
>
> Jenny Brown
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