2/18 NYTIMES Post

The NYTIMES article I read is entitled "For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care". This particular article discusses the many problems and solutions young adults have to face due to their lack of health care. Young Adults make up the largest population of uninsured people. Many young adults don't have health care due to a lack of a job, and because many jobs don't offer health care. If you're not working, going to school, or not covered under your parents plan you will be effected not only physically if you get sick but also financially. A lot of young adults lack not only the resoucres for health care coverage, but also the knowledge. For example, I am twenty-one years old, and at this point in my life when I go out to look for a job I don't only check to see if it pays well, but also what health coverage they have?, how much is it going to cover?, and how many years would I have to work there in order to receieve full health coverage if I want to retire? I mean there is other resources out there such as Medicade. But, if you don't have that what do you do in the mean time? A lot of times medication are being pass on from person to person. I am guilty of that myself. At the present moment my boyfriend doesn't have health care so whenever he gets sick I will give him something I was prescribed. I know it isn't right, but what else would you do?