Pre-Medical Guest Writer
Cornell University
Jeffrey Ho is an undergraduate student at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology. He hopes to become an infectious disease physician and work in the public health field, and is currently interested in a wide range of health topics ranging from medical research to healthcare policy. In his free time he enjoys competitive swimming and playing water polo.
Universities have been profiting off students due to the capitalistic and flawed nature of our health care system. Regional hospital networks prevent students from utilizing their insurance elsewhere. With nowhere else to turn, they are forced to pay high premiums for the university plan.
As another ACA repeal looms in the near future — after ACHA and BCRA — the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (Graham-Cassidy) legislation makes me think back to a patient I took care of a few months ago.
Intellectually, I understood the potential devastation that a lack of health insurance could bring to so many Americans. But it wasn’t until 2012 that I viscerally felt just how health care policies made in faraway Washington affected the lives of so many.
We are each entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. In his op-ed, Mr. Barsouk makes a number of statements that contradict the facts, eroding the credibility of his arguments. I hope to address the six most problematic statements here.
Our Health Policy student-leaders Aishwarya Rajagopalan and Adam Barsouk dissect the major policy changes of the ACA and the AHCA, offering their perspectives on the state of American health care.
The derailment of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) has given the supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) much to be joyous about. But many are wondering what happens next in the healthcare debate.
The future of American health care remains uncertain. It was only a few weeks ago that the Affordable Care Act narrowly evaded the congressional guillotine a mere seven years after its installation.
Guest Writer
Washington University in St. Louis
Matt Agritelley is a rising senior (Class of 2018) at Washington University in St. Louis double majoring in Genomics/Computational Biology and Spanish. He is a pre-medical student passionate about effective clinical practice, equitable distribution of care and developmental models, particularly within the Hispanic community both in the United States and abroad. When he’s not studying, Matt can be found rehearsing with the Wash U. Jazz Band, writing and recording music, or running.
