Ok this is geting off topic.
The issue is affordable health care for all.
Again wether the mom or dad takes the children to the hospital or feeds them healthy or whatever has nothing to do with health insurance for everyone.
So I'll ask again how is it a womans issue like Michelle Obama said it is?

I don't see how it should be...it should be for all. women want equality with men...men should have equality with women as well

well I have seen it. even in the parenting forums...it's there as well

I've seen it on here but not offline.

The things that you mentioned are women's issues to me.

Also, women get OB/GYN visits, have child birth, mammograms, birth control and men don't. Insurances dictate how often we get our woman check-ups. Some insurances don't even cover them. I'm sure that I've left some out - I'm still sick.

I answered this already, but I don't believe Ms. Obama meant it's ONLY a woman's issue but it that it is ALSO a woman's issue. I think, in that particular speech, she was targeting women, trying to get them to see that in her perspective, universal health care is a good thing. I'm sure somewhere, other people have specifically targeted other audiences.

I know but the thread went to who takes the kids to the doctor. Nothing to do with affordable health care for all.

Well, while it wasn't completely on point, perhaps, it was about affordable health care being a woman's issue. Which is how the short tangent came about. It really wasn't off-base. Ms. Obama did target an audience and her targeted audience did respond, at least on here.

I'm sorry if you feel that the thread was hijacked. Those were some of the reasons used to show you why health care is also a woman's issue.

Mrs. Obama was reaching out to women to help them understand the health care reform issue. Women vote. President's wives do that sort of thing - talk to the women.

Michele Obama is right, Health Care is a Woman's Issue.

When I was married, working and raising the kid, my wife was the one who always took the kid to the doctor.

Back when I was working, I managed a Division that had 85 employees, almost all men, and their wives took the kids to the doctor.

The guys might take off work if there was something serious but for routine stuff, it was always the wife who took the kid.

I did have one guy who's wife left him, ran off, and he raised 3 kids. Now, he used to do it all and I cut him a lot of slack, anytime he needed to be off work, I approved it.

I am not saying all men defer the kids medical care to their wives but from my experience, it's that way the majority of the time.

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of course not,,,people often confuse focus on one group as exclusion of another. I think this particular speech was just aimed at women in particular because of the statistics of how often the woman is taking care of health needs for the family.

I have raised my daughter with no help from mom or the goverment AND HEALTHCARE IS A BIG ISSUE TO ME!!!!!

Something needs done or I wont be able to afford mine and Ive paid into it for almost 20years!!!!!!!

I'm not disagreeing that most women take care of when it comes to going to the doctor.

Is the whole issue of health reform about who takes the children to the hospital NO

It's about covering everyone and lowering the cost of insurance(unless I missed something over the weekend)
It's not just a womans issue!

We've concluded that most women take care if the kids when it comes to health. Now then would you agree that it's the men who work and have the insurance through work? If that's the case then wouldn't it be more of a mans issue because he has to worry about paying for it?

Of course it's not just a woman's issue.

Who do you think Mrs. Obama should have been talking to about this - Congress, men's organizations? That's her husband's job. The woman was talking to women. That's appropriate. Other President's wives have talked to women's groups too.

What she said is true:

"Women play a unique and increasingly significant role in families, she said, with eight in 10 mothers reporting they are the ones responsible for choosing their children's doctors. More than 10 percent of women in this country are caring for a sick or elderly relative, she said.

"Being part of the sandwich generation, raising kids while caring for sick or elderly parents, that's just not a work-family balance issue anymore... it is a health care issue," Obama said."

Women my age are the sandwich generation. We may be caring for our children and our elderly parents at the same time. We are the caregivers.

Women have more doc checks than men do in general. So women do go to the doc more often for the most part. With gynocological, birth control, breast checks, pregnancy appts, etc...

It is not just a woman's issue though, it is a human issue.