# How many new people have health insurance due to obamacare now **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 29, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835 "2014-03-29T16:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 77
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835/77 "2014-11-03T21:41:18Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > I’m not seeing your distinction between auto and health insurance. Yes, men are priced higher because of the propensity to do stupid stuff like get a DUI. **The higher price isn’t for a malicious purpose, just for a realization that men do get more DUIs than women.** The higher price might not be malicious but it is punishing. You’re charging one gender more than the other. The distinction is that in auto it’s due to behavioral factors (men are more likely to drive recklessly) than by a consequence of mere birth (a health insurer charging women more essentially just for being women). > [@Has anybody ever heard of Bloody Marry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-heard-of-bloody-marry/91408/14): > > Your last point, again, assumes that I am a spokesman for conservatives or the Republican party. I’m not. If increases in health care premiums over the last year are due to technological advances, then I am not bitching about those. What I am bitching about a real, undisputed increases in premiums for males related to maternity coverage which gives them no real benefit (which was the initial point of my comment). My assumption was due to your “liberal nonsense” remark. That aside, I can’t take seriously a group of people (conservative or whoever) who rationalize higher prices as A-OK when businesses set them all on their own without explanation or obvious cause, but raise holy hell when they feel govt is involved. It’s not consistent. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-new-people-have-health-insurance-due-to-obamacare-now/684835)._