Lately, I have been seeing health care come up a whole lot lately in the news. I remember all the talk over Obama’s speech, the rude interruption (“you lie!”), the grandma death threats, and so on. While I was very impressed by his speech I still didn’t quite know what to think about it; health care is one of those subjects that I don’t know much about. This is a shame because it’s a big issue that is seriously going to affect me later on. I think that it’s a shame that people don’t talk about health care as much as they do about other issues because in my opinion it has to be the absolute most important issue of them all.

I was never really told too much about how health care and things related to it I guess because I didn’t have to worry about it. Now, I’m 18 however and I can see that in the near future this is going to be a huge problem for me because as of now I’m still covered under my grandparents’ medical plan. When it comes time for me to go after my own – well—in my opinion I’m pretty screwed. Even though I’m under a medical plan I still don’t go to the doctor’s every chance I get because it is so expensive. Even when I have a cold most of the time I just stay home or attempt to go about my day as usual and buy some cough drops, some Tylenol, and some Robitussen.

I guess in a nutshell, I don’t go to a doctor unless I absolutely have to. It’s not the best thing to do because sometimes when things do get bad then you may be too late and they may not be able to completely fix you up, if at all.

Something has to be done about the way health care is being carried out now. While I don’t know much about health care it doesn’t take a genius to know it needs fixing. I can only hope that they can fix it soon for my sake, for my grandparents’ sake, for my fathers sake (he has major back problems and so far has had four different surgeries), and most importantly for all of America’s sake.
—Torriano Melancon