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rite, have you looked into state aid, as in insurance?
BWAHAHA! *jumps up runs around room* AHHH! *rips hair* *throws glasses * AHHHGGGAGAGAGWAhahaha...heh...
No, not laughing or shrieking at you, dear. I live in one of the states that's trying to cut off Medicaid for poor people-which I'm not eligible for anyway, as I have chosen not to have a child. Only women with children who are under 18 are eligible for medicaid. I'm technically female, but chose not to pop out any mini-me.
I can't afford buying what they call "state risk pool" coverage, necessary since I have a passel of underlying conditions. It would cost half of my income...and still not cover everything.
I was paying cash...now have to fight my way through a county healthcare system in which I see a new intern doctor every time. They absolutely don't know what they are doing yet, and the newer meds are not available, even if they did know what they're doing.
My job's insurance covers so little and costs so much that it's not worth buying-it wouldn't even cover an ER visit, wouldn't pay for more than $35 a month of meds...and the meds were running me around $500 a month...now I'm too broke for that option.
For the past 8 years I have pretty much felt like I had a case of the 'flu...pretty much every day. More or less until the first sinus surgery-In Mexico. It broke us, and the Mexican doc only removed polyps, he didn't do what all was necessary.
I had to fight the county system for over a year to get sinusitis surgery from them. The Mexican surgery helped, but the infection was getting worse while I waited. And now...well,they refused to give me antibiotics three times even with evidence the infection's not clearing., despite now being drained. I told them the stuff in my nose is antibiotic-resistant and would likely be very hard to clear...and they gave me one it was immune to because it had been used twice before, even though I complained.
...But I got some antibiotics... and they seem to be working. Maybe. If this course doesn't work I know where I can get different ones, I'm just behind the 8-ball in that it's already resistant to a lot of the non-dangerous antibiotics.
Unless there's some sort of community grant thingie, no outside help. Not from this state. I may look into it when the wife and I finish couples' counseling, because that we have to pay for.