I have been personally affected by the mess that America calls the healthcare system. In the same year I had severe food poisoning and my stomach and intestines became swollen. I was hospitalized for a day each and then sent home, even though I was still very sick. The reason? My family has no health coverage. Both my parents are hard workers and own their own businesses. You would think that my family could afford health coverage, but we can't, despite the many hours per week and hard work. So, without coverage, there are heavy bills to pay. My mother and I have calculated that my parents will be paying hospital bills long after I graduate. Due to two days in the hospital, six saline bags and a bagel from the hospital cafeteria. Insurance companies are too scrupulous and too picky in their selection process. Insurance companies choose healthy people, who are not at risk of serious illness and who are willing to pay. If someone starts out healthy and then becomes ill, insurance companies may deny some coverage. For example, Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old from Seattle, saw his mother die due to lack of insurance. His mother died at the young age of 27 from pulmonary hypertension. Marcelas Owens then went to sign the healthcare law, sitting in the same room as Congress and President Barack Obama. Owens said, "I don't want any other child 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 therapy. She states, “I was consumed with the f… middle of the paper… 2,100 Maine doctors practice primary care and would qualify for a new payment bonus under health insurance reform. So, doctors will continue to make money, and lots of it (Health Insurance...Maine. Page Two). And the wait wouldn't be long, despite what some media sources claim. For example, a video streaming on the Internet claims that Canadian resident Lindsay McCrieth would have died of a brain tumor if she had not come to America to undergo an MRI (“Single Payer”). But that Internet video was made by Stuart Browning, who is famous for creating anti-government media. It later turned out that the situation with McCrieth was not true and that he underwent an MRI in Canada. Americans believe that it is so necessary to believe everything they see in the media, which leads to wrong thoughts and a snowball effect.