SUMMARY: An interview with a University of Oregon student who can’t afford the student health insurance, and doesn’t think that she’ll need the benefits. Going with-out the annual exams and check-ups, she still gets sick and just toughs through most of the colds.
TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?
CATEGORY: Citizen
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: This interview did not have a hard copy.
INTERVIEWEE: Jessica Fuchs
LOCATION: University of Oregon
ACCESSED: March 29th, 2009
SUPPORT: Planned Parenthood, a clinic that offers free health care to teens and women; University of Oregon student health care, different health care plans offered to students depending on their financial situation.
AUDIENCE & AGENDA: While attending school Jessica takes the risk of not having the health insurance that she may need one day. From her point of view, the things that she ‘misses’ out on from having health care isn’t something that is actually necessary. When I interviewed her, Jessica didn’t actually seem that fazed by the fact that she didn’t have health insurance.
USEFULNESS: This interview shows the impact that health care has on all ages, not just the families. There are many students that choose to go without health care, just simply because they cannot afford it. Although there are many alternative ways for this age group to receive health care many either do not want to put in the time or do not think that the money is really worth the care. Still the most common belief among students is that they wont need the health insurance in their early 20′s nothing, so why bother paying for it. Nothing is going to happen to them.
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