Sen. Stabenow And Rep. Wasserman Schultz Decry Treatment Of Women’s Issues In Health Care Debate

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Rep. Diana Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.) Wednesday decried the treatment of women’s issues in the ongoing health care reform debate.

“There’s just a total lack of understanding of what the lives are lack for women coupled with a very distorted view of what’s happening in the real world with health care,” Stabenow said during a conference call with reporters. “You put it all together and it’s extreme and backwards.”

Wasserman Schultz noted that the current health care model essentially discriminates against women.

“A recent study showed that 25 year old women are charged up to 45 percent more than 25 year old men for the same coverage,” Schultz explained. “Many women that actually do have insurance have plans that don’t cover basic women’s health services.”

Schultz and Stabenow related two key gubernatorial races to the topic at hand, stating that both Virginia candidate Bob McDonnell and New Jersey candidate Chris Christie hold troubling views when it comes to women’s health policies.

“If Chris Christie becomes governor of New Jersey, he would take women back to the dark ages,” Wasserman Schultz said. “If his views prevailed nationally, God forbid, women would lost the right to choose.”