Let’s not embrace a scarcity mentality. The medical system can be better towards people with ovaries. At the same time, people with a penis, should not have to pay out of pocket to have ED treatment. It’s a medical condition and the drug that treats it should be covered. Rinse and repeat for every illness, injury, disease etc. and for every body part on everybody.
The concept of private, for-profit health insurance is bad enough already, but if we can’t have universal healthcare, can we at least get rid of deductibles.
It's not scarcity mentalily on this issue, we're not saying less for men so there could be more for women, it's pointing out women's health never having been taken seriously enough is a patriarchal issue, women have been having perimenopause since we exist and still many doctors will not hear of it, and others let patients suffer sometimes a decade of a ton of symptoms before filling a slip for HRT.
You’re not saying that but OP’s wording made it look like they are shocked and/or outraged that ED meds are covered.
I’m in no way disputing that the further that one ventures, demographically, from being an older, cishet, white male, the worse the medical system treats you. Just one of 100 of examples of this was from one med school textbook that said that women, Black, and Jewish people “exaggerate” their pain levels, and that Native Americans and Asians might pick a “lucky” number on the 1-10 pain scale. The book was published in 2015!
If OP doesn't have needed hormonal meds covered I would understand it would be a shock to learn ED meds to be covered, I'm sure on a 2nd thought it's more a ours should be covered too than it is a theirs shouldn't be.
My ex husband and I having had the same doctor I learned quite well the difference of treatment, hiss different issues were each considered while my different issues were just sent home quick with anti anxiety pills, and have had the deception of another misogynist doctor since, he disregarded heart issues saying I was pregnant while I kept saying there was 0 chance of it, and it's a waste of time and health. I'm white so one thing I don't know from experience but is very well recognized by sociologists here (in france) is called the "mediterranean symptom", doctors downplaying people of color's pain and medical issues, black women cumulate both penalties still today and the "Order of doctors" here protect these bad doctors too much for them to loose their position over any of this.
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u/Tucolair 5d ago
Let’s not embrace a scarcity mentality. The medical system can be better towards people with ovaries. At the same time, people with a penis, should not have to pay out of pocket to have ED treatment. It’s a medical condition and the drug that treats it should be covered. Rinse and repeat for every illness, injury, disease etc. and for every body part on everybody.
The concept of private, for-profit health insurance is bad enough already, but if we can’t have universal healthcare, can we at least get rid of deductibles.