Why Access To Health Insurance Is Important

Health insurance is one of my greatest voting related issues, because let's be honest, it's important.  It makes my medications (mostly) affordable.  Covers doctors visits.  Makes a $6,000 ER visit $600.

It hits me personally.   In my mid 20s, BCBS denied my application for individual health insurance.  I appealed three times, including a letter from my healthcare provider, but I was still denied.  I was working part time and applying for individual health insurance due to a trifecta of problems, including attempting to complete a graduate program thesis while, dealing with a new diagnosis of gastroparesis, and soon to be no longer qualifying for insurance under my parents.