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    grandma123 Posts: 26, Reputation: 0
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    Nov 13, 2008, 11:55 PM
    Seeing a doctor without health insurance
    I have no health insurance and am unemployed.

    How can I get health coverage until I get a job?

    I was (as much as I hate it) thinking of public aid but I'm single, live at home with parents and have no kids.

    I don't think I qualify.
    I have a friend who is my age and lives with her parents and gets public aid but she has kids.

    I have gone to my 'free hospital/clinic' but that was a nightmare, after almost 11 hours of waiting I was told that I had a migrane. I have had mulitple symptoms for months now and know they are not migrane related. The doctor hardly listened to a word I said. I was treated like cattle.



    The friend I mentioned earlier who has public aid can pretty much go to any doctor she wants as long as they take public aid. That's what I need.

    Does anyone know how I would go about this?
    Or any alternative ideas?
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    twinkiedooter Posts: 12,172, Reputation: 1054
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    Dec 4, 2008, 01:05 PM

    Why don't you contact the local health dept and ask them if you qualify or not. If you don't try, you have no idea if you qualify or not.
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