Opinion

Graduates need health coverage

Posted February 13, 2011 11:00 pm

My two grandsons just graduated college and if it were not for the new health care law that just passed, they would be without health care until they find a full-time job and in this economy, it could be years.

The new law also let them be included in their parents' policy while they were in college. I also know many people who have pre-existing conditions and were unable to get insurance, or the rates were so high they couldn't afford the premiums. Under this new law, they now are able to get it.

I can't understand how anyone would not want everyone to be able to have insurance. It is just common sense that we all will save in the long term because people who don't have it use the emergency rooms anyway and we all end up paying for that.

Karen Storino

Buffalo Grove

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