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Cookie Monster shall be the next Fox News health expert

On Fox & Friends yesterday, Fox News health expert and man who thinks health is the opposite of heaven - David Samadi - said this with regard to his belief that men shouldn't pay as much as women for health insurance: "We only have the prostate. Women have the breasts, the ovaries, the uterus, they get checked in every part. Look, it's not bias, I'm not saying this as a man. [Women] go through a lot of preventive screenings, they give birth, they have the whole mammogram, the Pap smear. Guys, we don't like to go to the doctors, right?" Mr. Samadi is quite the expert indeed. "We only have the prostate. Women have the breasts, the ovaries, the uterus..." Yet, a fairly recent study shows that men are 1.5 to 2 times more likely to die from cancer than women. While there's approximately a 1 in 2 chance that men will develop cancer at least once in their lives, there's a 1 in 3 chance for women. So, as you were saying, Fox News health ...