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The Detroit News reports that the American Heart Association has released some disturbing news about women and their risk for heart disease and stroke. Apparently, "nearly all American women" are at some kind of risk. With health insurance costs growing more bloated day by day, too many women will die of this disease due to inadequate care.

It's almost too much to be believed. "The evidence shows that many more women than thought are at risk of heart disease and stroke -- even those whose only weakness was failure to exercise every day." Taking an aspirin every day is one controversial means of controlling the problem, though long-term stomach problems could be the result.

And health insurance isn't helping this situation much. Heart disease and stroke cost the US more than $350 billion dollars a year, and $209 billion of that is direct medical cost. But still, lack of education and poor medical care make heart disease and stroke the top two killers of women in this country.

This means that not only does this problem help to inflate health insurance costs, our failure to prevent or adequately cover the disease is also leading more women to die from it.

It's a horrible catch-22 that kills millions of women a year: health insurance is hard to get, so many women suffer from heart disease, get sick, and die. But, the costs of the disease are then factored into the healthcare costs that others have to pay, making health insurance even more expensive.

The only thing most women can do is to get the highest quality individual health insurance they can afford, and to take good care of themselves.

But something will have to be done about this, and very soon, before another generation of women suffer from an inadequate healthcare system.