The Health Divide

Why don’t our lawmakers care about women’s needs? Women are so complex amazing physical beings that there should be more research, funding and care put to their needs. Why are there so many erection dysfunction products available and covered by insurance policies for men? Yet women have to pay out of pocket for their monthly needed products and hormonal medications. Our lawmakers are spending more time trying to prevent places for women’s needs to stay open like Planned Parenthood. Birth control products are not being covered by insurance policies. Remember that birth control pills are not just used for keep that baby out of her body. Birth control pills are important for many women’s general health whereas erection dysfunction products like Viagra are not essential to keep a man alive.

Birth control pills are used to prevent serious conditions like Endometriosis, Fibroids and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Dysmenorrhea. They should be offered on insurance policies. As well for the women who don’t want any evidence of that creepy guy in their bodies anymore. For many of these conditions birth control pills are the only non-surgical option they may have. Endometriosis is painful and can feel like a chain saw is going through you with non- stop pain in your back or legs. Untreated it can cause infertility and chronic fatigue. The New York Times on March 31, 2016   reported that “women with endometriosis were 52% per cent more likely to have had a heart attack. Again, why is a hard penis medication covered by insurance and not birth control pills that can keep a woman alive?

You would think that a disease that could actually stop your heart be at least understood. Most people don’t even have a clue as to what endometriosis even is. Patricia Gunter, MD a menopause specialist with the Austin Diagnostic Clinic on March 4, 2017 said that, “It is a disease condition where the cells that are normally inside the uterus are outside the uterus.” One in ten women suffer from endometriosis and the condition can be treated with birth control pills.

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome symptoms are weight gain, hair growth, fertility problems and diabetes. These are incredibly common and are poorly understood. You would think there were tons of research in finding a cure for these problems. But no, there are many penis hardening products out there but not much research into women’s health problems. Do you think scientists would want to grow a uterus on a man anytime soon? Nah, men couldn’t deal with the discomfort of a period menstrual cycle every month. All I want to do is to have a man give birth to just one child and with all the discomfort involved in that process, our population explosion would be over and men would be handing out the pill like candy on Halloween.

Ten percent of women have Endometriosis and it receives $10 million dollars in funding per year.  Compare that with 10% percent of people who have Diabetes and it receives $1 Billion dollars of funding per year. Do ya think Diabetes gets more funding because men suffer from that too? The medications that have been funded to help men have sex better are Cialis, Kamagra,  Staxyn, Caverject, Zudena, Tadalis, Spedra, Viagra, Levitra, Caverta and Stendra and are all covered by insurance but birth control pills are a big political debate.

Why aren’t there more solutions for these painful and fairly common diseases? Is it because it is only found in women? Women are half the population and they deserve better care. There is NO cure for Endometriosis but we have 10 different brands of boner medication for a flaccid penis. Politics and science needs to pay attention to women’s needs NOW!