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Gender Discrimination by Insurance Companies?

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Play from 0:00[0:00] ..." This is -- Stevens on Beacon Hill the house is taking up the bill sponsored by -- and say representative Ruth balls are. To measure that she says will"...

Play from 0:15[0:15] ..." And I've sponsor. That. Would end. -- ending discrimination. Is an annuity policies. And annuity policies that someone buys to supplement their retirement. And today in Massachusetts. A man and a woman were purchased it wouldn't from"...

Play from 1:19[1:19] ..." I -- die at any time. And just the big Marshall the United States Supreme Court ruled back. Eighties that way you treat an individual and remember a group. That discrimination."...

Play from 1:34[1:34] ..." And you mentioned that term annuity. And in this particular instance what does that mean."...

Play from 1:50[1:50] ..." Life insurance and there's the death benefit that US -- residency and annuity. Is something you received. When you get older."...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" This is -- Stevens on Beacon Hill the house is taking up the bill sponsored by -- and say representative Ruth balls are. To measure that she says will end discrimination against women by insurance companies. It has to do with insurance products called annuities."

Play from 0:15[0:15]" And I've sponsor. That. Would end. -- ending discrimination. Is an annuity policies. And annuity policies that someone buys to supplement their retirement. And today in Massachusetts. A man and a woman were purchased it wouldn't from the same flight. But when they are you are the man will get a higher monthly pay out battle on the bill and that discriminate."

Play from 0:47[0:47]" What's the justification for that discrepancy if there is one."

Play from 0:50[0:50]" They -- insurance companies will tell -- that with -- live longer then men. And they have four in the end it'll equal out. -- We reject that argument is that. What you can predict about it well how do not think about an individual. So wild wild women on average may live longer than men on average. Any individual woman -- I -- die at any time. And just the big Marshall the United States Supreme Court ruled back. Eighties that way you treat an individual and remember a group. That discrimination."

Play from 1:34[1:34]" And you mentioned that term annuity. And in this particular instance what does that mean."

Play from 1:41[1:41]" I don't know -- is at an insurance policy that one by extra ones retirement. It's different -- life insurance. Life insurance and there's the death benefit that US -- residency and annuity. Is something you received. When you get older."

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