Should women pay more for medical insurance than men?

I recently watched a video by John Stossel where he made the case that women should pay more fore health coverage than men because they use it more.

I thought this was an interesting discussion. It's something I have never considered before. Is this a form of gender discrimination to just expect men to pay an equal amount of health care costs even though they use it less?

Some data to consider

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RESULTS: Women had significantly lower self-reported health status and lower mean education and income than men. Women had a significantly higher mean number of visits to their primary care clinic and diagnostic services than men. Mean charges for primary care, specialty care, emergency treatment, diagnostic services, and annual total charges were all significantly higher for women than men; however, there were no differences for mean hospitalizations or hospital charges. After controlling for health status, sociodemographics, and clinic assignment, women still had higher medical charges for all categories of charges except hospitalizations. CONCLUSIONS: Women have higher medical care service utilization and higher associated charges than men. Although the appropriateness of these differences was not determined, these findings have implications for health care.

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