Opinion

Health plan would help twentysomethings

Posted October 23, 2009 11:00 pm

I am 24 and I don't have health insurance. I live in the United States of America, have a college education, a 9 to 5 job and no health insurance. My entire family has health insurance, but I don't qualify to be under my dad's plan anymore and I can't afford other options. Something needs to change.

My age group, ages 19 to 29, where 30 percent of us don't have insurance, are more in need of reform than any other group. Obama's plan would allow young adults like myself to stay insured under our parents' plan until we're 26 and it would ensure affordable coverage for those not on their parents' plan. It would also prevent gender discrimination by insurance companies and the destruction of programs like Medicare. I support health care reform in this country.

That's just my story - not my friend's with cerebral palsy, not my brother's with cystic fibrosis, not my neighbor's with her own cleaning business - just mine.

Brianna Remington

Woodstock

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