Free Student Health-Care

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Jonathan Bolles
Ms. Jennifer Strickland
Senior Writing
November 19, 2014
Free Student Health-Care

Public School systems should provide high school students with free

healthcare. Young adults tend to do reckless things, and sometimes parents can't afford
healthcare or their plans don't cover their children. Free Healthcare for students should
be in affect because it's such a necessary thing. Kids will be kids and they'll need it.
Free healthcare would raise the standard of living for everybody, and make the world
safer. Something almost everyone would agree on, is that the children always need a
little more safety.
Some might say, Public School systems should not have to provide free healthcare to its students. This isn't right, people need this. People can't argue that sometimes
poverty prevents people from getting healthcare. If high school students got free healthcare then they wouldn't have to worry about it. Without worrying about it, they might be
able to focus more in school. Free healthcare provides a great safety need that will
comfort many of it's receivers.
It was taken in a test that the population with the highest percent of stress
caused pain was made up of high school students, or people with less then a high
school diploma (Schiller). With such a high number of students with this pain, it is certain that some of them must seek medical assistance. Yet some of them, maybe those
who need it the most, aren't able to. With a free plan for health care given to high school

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students this wouldn't be a problem. Some schools already have systems like this. Such
as one who sends it's daily attendance to Marion Co. Health Company, and if there is a
problem then the health company will take care of it (Spencer). Although it's not for an
individual but the school as a whole. This system allows some people who may not be
able to afford it, attain some much needed health care.
Standards in many schools are actually decreasing as some rooms or cafeterias
are literally standing room only (Bowen). This is definitely horrible because if even one
of those kids are sick with something, then there is an extremely high chance that the
rest of them will soon follow suit. Students across many nations are recognizing this as
a real problem. Some even protest not for just their own health care, but teachers too
(Green). These students and families of, truly recognize the issue as what it is, a problem that needs to be addressed. If public school systems were to provide some free
health plan or care of some sort, then many kids and young adults will be able to live as
they should, carefree and healthy.
The issue of health care is most definitely not a light one. There is a large change
happening in the world. More and more healthcare is being made available to the public
and less and less privately owned (Cohen). This is a great shift towards what it should
be. Soon, hopefully, the only people without healthcare will be those who haven't signed
up for it. As the rate of uninsured citizens is rapidly decreasing (Cohen), so is the unrest
in many nations across the world.

Public School systems should provide high school students with free

healthcare. Young adults are terribly reckless, and need to be covered. Yet some parents just can't afford it. Free Healthcare for students is a necessary thing. Sure our

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economy might take a blow at first when nobody is paying for healthcare, but it shouldn't
be something we have to pay for. Kids will be kids and they'll need it. Free healthcare
would increase the overall productivity with more healthy citizens and make the world a
safer place. Safety is easily the highest concern when it comes to anyone's children, so
let it be of the same importance to our nation.

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WORKS CITED

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Spencer, Tanya. Health Department Asks Schools for Local Attendance. Digital image. The Indy
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Bowen, Brianne. Ann-Arbor Schools Coping. Digital image. The Ann Arbor News. Mlive Media
Group, 10 Sept. 2013. Web. 17 Nov. 2014. <http://www.annarbor.com/news/education/ann-arbor-schools-coping-with-smaller-staff-larger-class-sizes/>

Green, Daniel. Health Care at Stake. 2013. University of California, Student Health Center

Cohen, Robin A., Ph. D. NHIS Early Release - Health Insurance. Digital image. Center for Disease Control. National Center for Health Statistics, Jan. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2014. <http://
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