Week 5 EOC: Health Care Reform

I think that in this sense of the health care of United States, these numbers that are in this census, its almost completely irrelevant due to the fact that more and more diseases and virus effect the American society on a daily basis. It is completely obvious that people in the American society over the age of 65 are not going to catch whatever viruses and/or diseases that today’s modern society will catch due to the fact that a person over the age of 65 is not going to be doing anything. That person is not going to have a job, not going to be healthy enough to do regular upkeep around the place where they live, but to basically sit around the house and do nothing. So it makes perfect sense that they are going to get the littlest end of the stick when it comes to health care, because they are already taken care of, due to social security and retirement or what not. Now the person under the age of 65 and DOES have a family, yes, this person is going to be the person who is going to be paying a lot of money for health care because they have to get it not just for him/her, but also for the rest of the family. The reason I think that children between the ages of 12 and 17, the health care is much larger is because children at that age are very curious and very sexually active to where certain things will “pop” up (i.e.: pregnancy, HIV,etc.) and when their at that age there is no stopping them, when children that age want to find out about something, the best way for them to learn is hands on. Granted, children in that age group have a higher education advantage than the generation before them and should know better, but that’s a whole other story in general.