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To the Editor: Miles and Parker (Jan. 16 issue)¹ show that women's access to health care depends crucially on their intimate and political relationships with men. Adequate access to health care for women requires that they be married to men who do not abuse them or that they have well-paying jobs, hold public office, or occupy other positions of power, access to which is impeded by institutional biases in favor of men.

Among the many ways in which men are unfairly favored by public and private health insurance companies is the practice of charging women substantially more for individual coverage . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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