Being sick while in college is truly like playing a game of chicken with yourself to see how long you can go ignoring your symptoms before you actually have to go to a doctor. Most of the times it works out in my favor to ignore it till it goes away, but I am seriously concerned for the day that I lose that game, and that leads me to my point that the healthcare system is fucked. I don\u2019t have insurance while I am at school because I am only insured in my home state of California and not in New York, so taking a trip to even my shitty on-campus clinic will cost me an arm and a leg just for them to tell me it\u2019s probably just the flu and that I\u2019ll be fine. The first time I got seriously sick at school I actually did go to the campus clinic and it was essentially $200 for them to tell me they didn\u2019t know what I had but it was probably just a common cold, sending me on my way with a gatorade and a jell-o cup. Since then, I have learned to just suck it up because as much as I like gatorade, I can get it for a lot cheaper than $200 at Wegmans. It especially sucks that my school already charges students over $80,000 a year in tuition, so adding $200 onto the bill for shitty healthcare services is really just insult to injury. We are, tragically, far from free healthcare at a countrywide level, but I don\u2019t think it is much to ask from private educational institutions that charge students outrageous amounts for tuition to offer free and decent health care to their students, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Being sick while in college is truly like playing a game of chicken with yourself to see how long you can go ignoring your symptoms before you actually have to go to a doctor. Most of the times it works out in my favor to ignore it till it goes away, but I am seriously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}