Biscuit Factory :: A legal alien lost in American healthcare system

Biscuit Factory :: A legal alien lost in American healthcare system

My friend Yoojin has a new blog post that is yet another story of how the American healthcare system is broken to its core. While I'm glad some kind of reform is coming, I hope that it is not further entrenching a broken system with relatively minor fixes here and there.

She is a legal immigrant and was not unemployed for a single day, but went without coverage for over 50 days because her health insurance was "paid by her employer", but not an "employer sponsored health plan."

Craziness. Is this how we attract the best and brightest?

I also had to go without health insurance through most of the summer as I went from being a PhD student to a professor.