Healthcare's Gender Gaps

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A Kaiser Family Foundation survey finds women age 18-64 are more likely than men to be dissatisfied with the quality of healthcare they receive, by a margin of 22 percent to 16 percent. Given the gender gap in life expectancy, we can expect the women to continue expressing such complaints long after the better-satisfied men are dead. They’ll still be switching doctors, too. The survey found 18 percent of women have changed healthcare providers during the past five years due to dissatisfaction with care, vs.

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