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[font color="blue" size=4 face=courier]Life expectancy[/font]
Men die at an earlier age, but that wasn't always the case
Men live roughly 10% shorter lives
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_09.pdf see page 2
A black male born in the US is unlikely to live long enough to collect social security.
[font color="blue" size=4 face=courier]Premature deaths[/font]
More men die of every preventable cause, including traffic accidents, suicide, violence and workplace injury.
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age-and-gender
[font color="blue" size=4 face=courier]Healthcare spending[/font]
Due to their longer lives, the lifetime healthcare expenditure for the average woman is 34% higher.
Principal Findings
Per capita lifetime expenditure is $316,600, a third higher for females ($361,200) than males ($268,700). Two-fifths of this difference owes to women's longer life expectancy. Nearly one-third of lifetime expenditures is incurred during middle age, and nearly half during the senior years. For survivors to age 85, more than one-third of their lifetime expenditures will accrue in their remaining years.
Gender is, by a huge margin, the biggest determinant of health care cost, far bigger than diet or
smoking.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/
Prior to health care reform, these higher costs were reflected in higher individual insurance rates. HCR prohibits gender as a rating critera, so men's premiums go up and women's go down. In effect, men subsidize the higher cost of women's longer lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30women.html
(I love this headline: "HCR cuts the cost of being a woman". Since "the cost of being a woman" is primarily due to living a long time, I'd happily pay.)
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