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Article: College students are health care's invisible minority: health care reform bills fail to address the up to 5 million college students who lack health insurance.(washington update)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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Without health insurance, University of Maryland senior Susana Sagastizado gets nervous if her nose begins to run or her forehead starts to feel warm. They are all bad signs, she said, of an illness she can't afford--literally.
Luckily, the university's health center provides care at a reasonable price, so Sagastizado can be seen and pay for a flu shot using income from a part-time job. But if she does get the flu, the 21-year-old's good fortune could end.
"I worry about it a lot, it's always in the back of my head," Sagastizado said about not having insurance. Her parents can't afford to have her and her two brothers on their insurance without losing ...