M. Livingston on higher health insurance rates for women

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Martha Livingston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health and Society, SUNY College at Old Westbury, responds to the message on the insurance industry effectively classifying female gender as a preexisting disorder:

I’m going to bring this to my last women’s health class of the semester tonight; what better way to illustrate the points we’ve been making all semester?

Years ago I had a button, which I’m planning to have duplicated, that says:

“Life: a preexisting condition spread by sexual contact which is invariably fatal.”