Do you have healthcare? No...

I have long believed that healthcare should be a right, but the Frontline video served to drive this point home to me.

I am fortunate that both of my parents work for companies with excellent health insurance for their employees, and that I can remain under their plans until I turn 24. However, this video showed me that in these last few short months until I age out of the plan I had better set plans in motion trying to find myself health insurance because most of the private sector will not choose to cover me. I don't mind telling you why either, I have hay fever and other seasonal allergies. Hay fever as a reason to refuse health insurance? Seriously? This means that 40 million Americans (1), who suffer from hay fever, would if forced to seek health insurance within the private sector be denied coverage.

This is only one of the frightening issues that the Frontline video brings to light. Equally as disturbing to me is the idea that health insurance companies have entire departments devoted to researching the clients who are forced to seek higher coverage for medical needs. Is there not a better use of the resources used to undertake this project? I think more information is necessary to determine the true depth of the issue this country with rescission. Perhaps I had previously been blind to this issue, but it seems amazing to me that so little information is needed for company to drop a policy. As one of my classmates pointed out isn't healthcare a contract?

It is embarrassing to the US that we are in our current situation. We have hardworking people losing jobs, homes, possessions and still losing coverage. We also have smart up and coming college graduates taking jobs simply to find healthcare instead of pursuing the career that they studied. Worst of all is the 54 million Americans without any health insurance. As the video said multiple times, the United States is the only developed country who citizens can't afford health insurance.

I am ready for a change, and can't wait to watch to see how the current government starts the process. I am not sure health insurance alone will be the one only to change, but the medical insurance doctors pay that help to drive up the cost of their services, and the legal system that has built up the malpractice lawsuit may also need to be reviewed along with other health related systems.

(1)http://www.acaai.org/public/mediaquiz/hayfever.htm