Insurers: Women are just too risky

Women readers, get ready to fight. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, Blue Cross Blue Shield of California has decided to charge women more for health care insurance than men. A California woman, Tova Hack, works part-time, and has to buy her own individual health care policy because her employer doesn’t provide health insurance for her. She found out that the cost of her high- deductible, bare-bones individual policy was going up 20 percent. The increase couldn’t be due to the possibility of pregnancy, because her policy didn’t cover pregnancy-related expenses. Blue Cross Blue Shield simply discovered that women are more expensive to insure than men and decided to stick them with the costs.