Healthcare or Health Crisis?

Quick, name the country that spends the most money on healthcare yet is ranked 50th in terms of their average life expectancy. Give up? It’s the U-S of A, and while we often boast of being the best at nearly everything from sports to our armed services, we drop the ball at the goal line in the healthcare game and have continued to do so for longer than most care to admit.

Universal healthcare may in fact not be the answer to the crisis, but with more than 40 million people uninsured and rising by the year, a solution needs to be obtained in the very near future.

The price of doing nothing and letting the prices of our premiums and continued domination of insurance agency over their consumers is simply too much to bear as a soon-to-be recent graduate and eventual provider for a family. While those of us who sit comfortably on our parents’ payrolls flip through the channels ignoring the latest on Capitol Hill and failed execution of tireless pieces of legislation get stalled on the floor due to egos and stubbornness, millions and millions continue to suffer the consequences.

There is simply no reason why we should be spending 1/6 of our economy on healthcare and spending more to stay alive then provide for ourselves. S,o as President Obama called out the insurance agencies in a spirited and invigorating address on Monday (Clip of Obama Health Care Address in Glenside, PA), so too will I call out Congress.

This is a call to Congress: Just because you can put a suit and tie on everyday does not  mean you can always effectively determine what the nation “wants.” Sometimes, it takes the whispers of many to make a giant yell by a selected few. Please, be the change that we as citizens of this great nation so desperately deserve.

While the majority of us are sailing the waters of unemployment leading up to post-graduation, obtaining affordable healthcare is just another unfortunate tidal wave that stands in our way of starting the rest of our lives.

If you want to learn more about the health insurance process, and how you as a soon-to-be graduate can benefit from knowledge provided by others, than I urge you to purchase a copy of Heather’s e-book.