Usually the county hospital or community health clinics will provide
these services. If you get injured, you are entitled to go to an
emergency room, get seen and then pay in installment. If there is a
county hospital, they will probably work with you on reasonable
payments, etc.

 

For mammograms you can probably go to a local health clinic for the
indigent. Find the poor neighborhood in your community and ask where the
health clinic is. Sign up and you'll get seen. They probably provide
breast exams, pap smears, glucose tests, CV screenings, etc. You may
have to pay a fee. 

 

If you have an expensive disease, get a bunch or credit cards. American
express usually gives you a no limit account. Spent them to the limit
and declare bankruptcy.  

 

As far as free or inexpensive health insurance, there is no such thing
anymore, even for people in full time employment. There are huge
deductibles, for everything except primary care. 

 

Andres 

 

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From: womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:womenliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Lynne Feinberg
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:01 PM
To: womenliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [WomenLiteracy 597] Health Insurance

 

I have asked at the schools, I have contacted the union (MCCC),  I have
contacted TESOL. I have Googled everything I can think of Googling.  I
can't bring myself to believe that there is nothing available, and I
know I am not alone in this situation.  Does anyone have any ideas for a
single, hardworking, low-paid but otherwise not unhappy adjunct
community college ESL instructor seeking health insurance?  Something I
can afford that will allow me to get a yearly mammogram, and an x-ray in
case I fall off my bicycle.  Here's hoping, and in the meantime feeling
much too vulnerable. 

Thank you,
Lynne Feinberg

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