
Erin Prater
Weekend Editor at Fortune
- Peyton, CO 80831, USA
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- Women drop $15 billion more annually on medical expenses than men. How employers can fix the covert health insurance ‘pink tax’26 Sep 2023—yahoo.comWomen spend billions more each year on health care than men do—and it indirectly contributes to the gender wage gap. That’s according to a new report—titled “Hiding in plain sight: The health care gender toll”—released Tuesday by financial services firm Deloitte. Researchers examined the medical spending of 16 million U.S. workers with company-sponsored health insurance plans from 2017 through 2022, and explored patterns of gender inequity the data revealed. Men and women pay the same price...