Health Care with No Insurance

[IrisMGOK]

Yes. When I lost my job I was concerned that I would lose my doctor and my diabetes medication. Luckily I was able to get on subsidized COBRA. But I agree one should not have to depend upon having a JOB in order to have access to GOOD INEXPENSIVE medical care. I'm glad things worked out for the OP.

[eastwestman]

Originally Posted by okie1962

You took the words right out of my mouth. Seems people around here listen to too much talk radio and get a lot of misinformation from Millionaire airbags that use fear and anger to derail any hope of regular folks getting the medical help that they need.

Exactly! Unless jumping through the HMO hoops is your thing, there is a better way.

[reinaldtreska]

Originally Posted by mom2jayden

Well we ended up in the emergency room. He was diagnosed with sudden onset diabetes, gastritis, low thyroid, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. They said it was the gastritis making him throw up blood. He had to stay in the hospital for 3 days. We qualified for several scholarship programs and will not have a bill, Thank God!

I hope all went well for you .Im in the same situation pretty much and im not sure how it works.You just go in the emergency room and they wont charge you at all if you dont have a income or they will just bill you latter ? Thank you

[SOROKC]

If you have the money you can generally negotiate with the hospital if you pay in full. If you don't, you can have payment plans. Not only that but there are some practices that still do a sliding income scale, but it's not really advertised.

I did this with my parent's hospital bill and I managed to knock it down by almost 70%, and I did the same thing for my brother at about 50%.