I have personally been affected by the mess America calls a healthcare system. The same year, I had severe food poisoning and my stomach and intestines swelled. I had to be hospitalized for a day each, and then I was sent home, even though I was still very sick. The reason? My family does not have health coverage. Both of my parents work very hard and own their own businesses. You would think that my family could afford health coverage, but that is not the case, despite the many weekly hours and hard work. So, without coverage, the bills to pay are heavy. My mother and I calculated that my parents would pay the hospital bills long after I graduated from college. Because of two days in the hospital, six bags of saline, and a bagel from the hospital cafeteria. Insurance companies are too rigorous and too picky in their selection process. Insurance companies choose people who are healthy, without risk of serious illness and likely to pay. If someone starts out healthy and then becomes ill, then insurance companies may deny them certain coverage. For example, Marcelas Owens, an eleven-year-old from Seattle, saw his mother die due to lack of insurance. His mother died at the age of 27 from pulmonary hypertension. Marcelas Owens then went to the health care bill signing, where he sat in the very room of Congress and President Barack Obama. Owens said, “I don’t want other kids to go through what I went through.” (“Faces of... Debate.” Page two) Another victim of insurance companies, Molly Secours battled uterine cancer and nearly lost her home due to medical bills. She had health insurance, but was told she needed a radical hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. She says, “I was consumed by the middle of paper...and 2,100 Maine doctors practice primary care and would be eligible for a new bonus payment under health insurance reform. So doctors will still make money, and lots of it (Health Insurance... Maine. Page two). And the wait would not be long, despite what some media sources claim. For example, a video circulated on the Internet claiming that Lindsay McCrieth, a resident of Canada, would have died of a brain tumor if she had not come to America to have an MRI ("Single Payer"). But this internet video was made by Stuart Browning, infamous for his anti-government media. It was then discovered that McCrieth's situation was not true and that she immediately had an MRI in Canada. Americans feel it is so necessary to believe everything they see in the media, that it then leads to faulty thinking, and that then leads to a snowball effect..