{"id":1046,"date":"2022-04-27T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:29:24","slug":"krissy-williams-pratt-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/krissy-williams-pratt-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Krissy Williams, Pratt Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am a junior at Pratt Institute with a major in Creative Writing and a minor in Psychology. After college, I hope to pursue a job in creative writing.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My family and I qualify for Medicaid although we\u2019ve had to switch to metro-plus because Medicaid wasn’t as accessible for our needs. Due to the limitations under Medicaid, I really struggled with being able to access certain doctors and therapy because a lot of therapists didn\u2019t take my insurance. It took me months to find the care I needed. In one instance this caused me to go into debt, because I went into a therapy office thinking that they covered me. However, days after the session they informed me that it was not fully covered by my insurance and gave me a bill that I couldn’t pay off for months. I\u2019ve also noticed the more advanced therapy treatments I need like EMDR are inaccessible to me because it is only for people who have the funds to pay out of pocket. My family and I also struggled with getting our prescriptions filled under Medicaid as many pharmacies, for example Walgreens didn\u2019t accept our insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we shouldn\u2019t have to be upper class or rich to have good care. Lower-income\u00a0individuals are always at the short end of the stick when it comes to these things. Therapists don\u2019t take insurance because the health care system doesn\u2019t pay them enough. In return this causes therapists to overcharge and only cater to upper-class people which leaves us with nothing. This is not fair to those who have chronic illnesses who cant afford to pay for treatment. It’s ridiculous we have to pay to get the help\u00a0we need to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a junior at Pratt Institute with a major in Creative Writing and a minor in Psychology. After college, I hope to pursue a job in creative writing.    My family and I qualify for Medicaid although we\u2019ve had to switch to metro-plus because Medicaid wasn’t as accessible for our needs. Due to the limitations under Medicaid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,30],"tags":[202,114,207,210,226,209,219],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate-district-25","category-assembly-district-57","category-pratt-institute","tag-medicaid","tag-mental-health","tag-out-of-network","tag-out-of-pocket","tag-private-school","tag-restrictive-network","tag-surprise-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}