Sophomore Andrew Pazdon, a Hatchet columnist, recounts his recent bout with the health insurance industry.
I started to worry I would be forced to appear before a government-run death panel that would halt any treatment I may receive to stay breathing. I was afraid I would have to wait weeks to see some communistical, poorly trained doctor from the third world who wouldn’t know the flu from the femur. Thankfully, I woke up, splashed some cold water on my face, and realized these worries were baseless, dangerous and quite foolish, but the ordeal was far from over.
So,let’s draw a parallel. You have car insurance and you had a flat, veered off the road and dented your driver door. You need a mechanic.
Sorry, all the car repair operations in your area are booked for the next month due to heavy load of repairs to cars that had accidents (it rained…).
OMG – Is your insurance company responsible to have your car fixed? Or is it only responsible to cover your expense. It is a CAR INSURANCE company! Not a Car Care company! – you seem to be confused.
Don’t see how insurance here wasn’t enough — you got to go to a doctor and they paid for it?
Death panels? The author is insured by Care First Blue Cross/Blue Shield. A quick search on their database reveals 699 primary care providers alone within three miles of GW. I, too, am fortunate enough to be covered by the same insurance criticized in this article, and I have yet to find a single practicing physician of any sort in the tri-state area that has refused that particular insurance.
College students belong to this “invisible minority” because we’re rarely in need of medical attention, not because we have more trouble finding doctors than anyone else. Calling for reform because of an inability to utilize widely circulated resources, both online and over the phone, is a completely unfounded critique of the private sector of health insurance. Certainly, government intervention in your health care plan isn’t going to teach us how to Google a doctor.