The Young Invincibles Summary

After reading the article written by David Amsden called the Young Invincibles, I’ve build an interest in the problem of young individuals, mostly students, who live without health insurance and the impact it has on their life. These young adult picture such inspiring minds and work hard in school to build a future, while also trying to find ways to pay their bills and build their dreams by attending school. The main focus was discussing the subtle ways, by means of living without any health insurance and the way it changes the behavior of these young individuals and the way they think. The impact this places on them, varies in a significant number of ways. For example, any illness or life and death situation this person may encounter, the recovery and quality of speed they’re entitled to depends mostly on their health insurance, with the number of days for treatments they’re able to receive. Additionally, once completed and returned home, they will be faced with the struggle of receiving bills, calls from bill collectors and may not even get a chance to continue the care they really need, like physical therapy or take the prescribed medication because of no health …show more content…
Health care is necessary to obtain equal opportunity in our society just like education. Being part of nursing research allows us the opportunity to achieve more successful patient outcomes, with a greater reasonable cost (Hassmiller, 2010). One of the nurse’s main role in assisting to address this problem is to do more to help prevent diseases. Doing so, by delivering chronic care management to aging and sick individuals, offering end of life care that entails care, compassion and comfort, also going an extra mile and doing more to prepare the geriatric population (Hassmiller,