This past class for my health communications course, was one of the most eye opening and interesting lectures of this whole semester. It was on health literacy and illiteracy. In this field which I would like to think I am pretty well informed, I get completely lost in the jargon used and the terms that are ever changing and never completely defined. My insurance was a pain to get because I had to first figure out if I could afford it, how important it was (very) and what are earth I would be getting, which I still do not know for sure. And I am pretty well educated about that stuff. Also we discussed illiteracy in general and how it would effect your life and health standards, meaning how you take your medication, and get your information on health, if I am curious or unsure about anything I will just sit down and look it up (the dork in me LOVES it) but I can not imagine not being able to do that. This world is so hard for people and like we discussed in other classes these people are labeled as "hard to reach" and thus not addressed, so do we just wait for them to mix the wrong chemicals in their homes and blow up (ammonia and bleach) or do we help them to know what they are doing. I vote for the latter, but society does not seem to focus on it so much.