Blog 2

Do you believe that access to healthcare is a right or a privilege? Justify your answer.

I believe health care should be a right and a privilege to a certain extent. The reason for both is because everyone should be able to have health care in their lives when they need it, especially if there is an accident or an emergency. It should be a privilege as well because a lot of people know how to work the system as well. My boyfriend works at the hospital and he's had this one patient that lives off of the governments money and literally refuses to get the surgery he needs and he basically lives at the hospital until they get the inflammation down on his leg.

Blog Number 1

Blog #1 (Chapter 1, Module 1)

What health issues you are most concerned about?  Why?  Interview 2-3 women (different ages, ethnicities and/or cultures if possible) and ask them the same question.  You may provide pseudo names to protect their identity.  How are your concerns similar or different?  Explain.

Heath issues that most concern me are breast cancer and obesity. There are too many women today who have had breast cancer and one of them who is close to me is my fiancee’s mother. She’s like my other mother and she went through the process and pain of having it. Obesity is another one because there are a good majority of people who are overweight and even children.

I talked to my future mother in law and she said a big issue was also breast cancer for women. It’s not something to be taken likely. She said she was afraid if something happened to her she would be more concerned about her husband trying to survive without her. It is really scary to even consider losing someone dear to breast cancer.

My sister agreed with my on obesity and she also mention asima becase she has it. She also has a child and our father died of an asima attack so she was concerned about having asima attacks and not having her medicine. It is terrifying to think about someone that you care about and  love being taken away from things that can or cannot be fixed.