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tree_and_leaf) wrote2007-08-23 06:33 pm
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What the hell?!
The DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) provides a combined health and personal insurance scheme for visiting academics and students. The tarifs are as follows:
Men: € 69 per month.
Women: € 205.50 per month (not covering prescriptions for the Pill, which is ironic given that the only possible justification for a higher charge for women I can think of is that they might find themselves in an interesting and expensive condition).
I shall not be insuring myself with them. Sexist bastards!
Men: € 69 per month.
Women: € 205.50 per month (not covering prescriptions for the Pill, which is ironic given that the only possible justification for a higher charge for women I can think of is that they might find themselves in an interesting and expensive condition).
I shall not be insuring myself with them. Sexist bastards!
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On the other hand, they live longer than men. Life insurance premiums reflect this.
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Who knows, the two might even be related... It seems a big discrepancy, all the same.
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My rule of thumb is that health insurance costs double for a woman, and that's excluding pregnancy complications - but that is only a rule of thumb.
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What seems particualrly unfair here is that they don't adjust the charges for other factors such as smoking - is a female non-smoker really that much worse a risk than a male smoker?
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(GLARING and puffing at the sheer blatant sexism)
What rot is this, I say?!
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