I'm sure that you - like me - have often wondered: just why is healthcare - particularly women's healthcare - so expensive?
In this episode, I'm shedding light on the additional costs women face in accessing healthcare, and the things that cause these issues. These include wage disparity, geographical location, and the "pink tax" - the higher prices charged for products marketed to women.
I also talk about the fact that, despite the role the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has played in protecting women from discrimination, there are still challenges in ensuring affordable healthcare for all women.
But it's not all doom and gloom! Despite these challenges, positive changes can be made, as long we keep talking about wage disparities and the specific reasons behind the high costs for women's healthcare. There is potential for change.
Topics include:
- Why it's so hard for women to access affordable healthcare insurance, even when premiums are the same
- Why exceptions and legal responses, such as religious and moral grounds for not covering contraceptives, still impact women's healthcare costs, despite the ACA and Medicaid
- What's the "pink tax"?
- The effect that wage disparity - along gender and race lines - has on affordability of healthcare
- The growing gender gap in higher education enrollment and graduation rates, and why that will be good for the cost of women's healthcare
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Resources mentioned in the episode
Gender Wage Gap
The Gender Wage Gap Endures in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
Geographic Location
Cuyahoga, Ohio | County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Menopause Transition
Menopause transition: effects on women’s economic participation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Education and Enrollment
Why the gap between men and women finishing college is growing | Pew Research Center
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