{"id":926,"date":"2022-03-25T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/?p=926"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:09:00","slug":"jessica-ezem-suny-new-paltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/jessica-ezem-suny-new-paltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Ezem, SUNY New Paltz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-3.52.27-PM-1-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-3.52.27-PM-1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-3.52.27-PM-1-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-3.52.27-PM-1-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-25-at-3.52.27-PM-1.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Jessica Ezem. I am a Theater major with Concentration in Performance and Minor in Black Studies. I am a Junior at SUNY New Paltz. I have an idea of what I want to do after I graduate college but I have no concrete plan. My family and I have never encountered the issue of not receiving healthcare when needed. I have health insurance covered by Medicaid under my parents. I fear I\u2019ll lose coverage from aging out of my parents plan. I know sooner or later I will have to apply and have my own plan. My family does not struggle with medical bills, but I do have people close to me that do because of their insurance coverage. We need a more equitable health care system; everyone should have access to resources to take care of themselves and their health. The determined factor of life and death shouldn\u2019t be based on the amount of money a person makes. Someone shouldn\u2019t have to decide between paying bills for their health or paying their rent bill. Universal healthcare is a great idea; it ensures healthcare for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jessica Ezem. I am a Theater major with Concentration in Performance and Minor in Black Studies. I am a Junior at SUNY New Paltz. I have an idea of what I want to do after I graduate college but I have no concrete plan. My family and I have never encountered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,123,26],"tags":[206,202,199],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-42","category-assembly-district-103","category-suny-new-paltz","tag-aging-out","tag-medicaid","tag-suny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/health\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}