Women Pay More For Insurance

Item: Women shell out more for insurance: Bills seek new rules for health coverage /David Lightman, McClatch

More Info: Women of child-bearing age routinely pay more for health care because they’re women. If they’re pregnant, they can be legally denied coverage. Women face other problems in today’s insurance market: They tend to need more preventive care and therefore are subject to more co-pays and deductibles, and single heads of households are often women, meaning they’re responsible for the family’s health care bills. Legislation now being considered by Congress to overhaul America’s health care system would dramatically change the rules, and there’s general agreement that this is a problem that needs fixing.

Question: Have any female readers experienced this bias in health care coverage?