The Generation Without Health Insurance - Do you know someone like this?

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The Young Invincibles

They’re young and healthy, and insurance is expensive. As long as they don’t catch the flu, slip on the ice, crash a bike, snowboard into a tree, rupture an appendix, or get hit by a bus, everything will be fine. Right?

• By David Amsden

Jake Hollner Age: 24
Occupation: Home Depot employee, artist
They offer insurance at Home Depot, but you’re only allowed to sign up during a two-week period and I missed it. If it’s a cut or bruise or whatever, I try to patch it up myself. I usually know what to do. I bruised a rib last winter. I just wrapped it in rags to keep it tight, and it got better after a few weeks. Also, I cut my head on a wineglass back at Halloween. I was very drunk, and there was blood all over the place. My friend wanted to call the ambulance, but I told her not to. I just cleaned it out myself. Now I’ve got a scar, but at least I’m not broke.
Precautions: I like to climb things, trees and bridges and things like that. I don’t usually think about it until after I’m hurt.
Anxieties: None.   (Photo: Joshua Wildman)

It was an unfamiliar pain, sharp and persistent, as if a rag were being twisted inside his abdomen. Tighter and tighter, crunching in on his organs, enough to wake Andrew Ondrejcak one morning in 2004 before his alarm went off. Indigestion? No, probably it was a return of the stomach ulcers that had plagued him as an undergrad a few years back. Ulcers felt somewhat different, it’s true, more an isolated stabbing compared with the lateral serrations currently tormenting him. But it had been a while; you forget the specifics of pain. Whatever it was, Ondrejcak, who was 24, worried he might have to see a doctor, something he made a point to avoid. Like 47 million other Americans, including most everyone he knew, Ondrejcak did not have health insurance.

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