Health care reforms mean lower premiums for women

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At the moment, 90 percent of individual plans are more expensive for females. The current practice called gender rating, which will be eliminated by health care reforms, has caused the premiums for 90 percent of individual plans to be more expensive for women than they are for men with the same policy. Every year, women spend $1 billion more on their medical plans than they would without gender rating. This statistic is according to a recent report that was issued by the National Women’s Law Center regarding gender rating and…

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