{"id":899,"date":"2022-03-22T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/?p=899"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:03:00","slug":"jade-mckinney-pratt-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/jade-mckinney-pratt-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade McKinney, Pratt Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m a first year student studying film at Pratt Institute. After school, I\u2019m going to become a director and open my own production company. I have needed healthcare and haven\u2019t been able to get it. Very recently, the plan I was on changed from covering my prescriptions and pharmaceuticals to a different setup. The new plan covers me and my parents, but not my prescriptions, and I need my prescriptions to be able to function. Going into the pharmacy, standing in line, and getting told that I couldn\u2019t get my prescription- not even getting a call from my insurance plan to tell me what\u2019s happening with my plan, not even a heads up- was a lot. I was told that it changed because my dad had retired, but I don\u2019t stay in touch with my dad, so I wouldn\u2019t have known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I have government insurance, and it used to allow me to go anywhere in the country and get covered when my dad was on active duty. Now, because he\u2019s retired, I can only go to certain military bases or hospitals to get covered. I\u2019m very concerned about losing benefits due to aging out of my parent\u2019s plan. With my current insurance, I have it as long as I\u2019m in school until I\u2019m 25, but if one day my dad decides to take me off his plan, he could. So every time I go into the pharmacy, I have to wonder \u201cAm I going to have healthcare today?\u201d Or I have to call my main practitioner and ask, \u201cAm I still enrolled with you?\u201d It\u2019s really intense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I believe that it\u2019s important to have a more equitable healthcare system in New York because healthcare is a right. People deserve to have access to hospitals and to other things that they need, and they shouldn\u2019t have to be struggling to pay bills or worrying about if they can eat or get their medication. That\u2019s not fair. People deserve to be treated, even if they\u2019re just scared they might be sick and want to go in for a checkup. There\u2019s no price you can put on somebody\u2019s health. That\u2019s why universal healthcare is important- because at the end of the day, when it\u2019s profit versus health, there shouldn\u2019t even be a competition. It should be health every time, a public good every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a first year student studying film at Pratt Institute. After school, I\u2019m going to become a director and open my own production company. I have needed healthcare and haven\u2019t been able to get it. Very recently, the plan I was on changed from covering my prescriptions and pharmaceuticals to a different setup. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43,30],"tags":[206,204,203,226,209],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate-district-25","category-assembly-district-56","category-pratt-institute","tag-aging-out","tag-military","tag-prescription","tag-private-school","tag-restrictive-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}