Do you have a primary care physician? Have you been by one of those 'walk-in' doctor places like Urgent Care?
If you're really ill and need treatment. Arizona has the AHCCCS program which provides free treatment to the enormous non-English speaking and poor populations all around the state that can't afford insurance. You might have to move to Arizona to get covered, but you would get treatment and unlike most insurance policies with a business, pre-existing conditions are not delayed for treatment.
Your local hospital should treat you and bill you later as well. Worst case scenario you get treatment, get the bills, declare bankruptcy and include the hospital bills on the list of creditors to be notified.
The real problem is doctors are not know-it-alls and many illnesses appear that defy easy identification - or are too new to even have been identified yet. In which case, the doctors can examine you and find nothing wrong, that shows up on their many tests. This happens every day all over the world a thousand times a day - whether you are insured or not. So the hospital doctors are in the job of "stabilizing" illnesses and not necessarily identifying them or curing them.
Seek out all possible options. If you had a primary care physician with a previous employer, contact them and tell them your predicament and ask for advice. They may know of a program or doctor that works inexpensively.
I hope you start feeling better by yourself. Let us know how it's going.
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Options.
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- What would happen if - - - ?
- That was interesting.
- How can an invention be a basic right?
- re: How can an invention be a basic right?
- A good argument can be made
- re: "Things that must be paid for by others are not inherent rights."
- In my state
- Government health care
- It is a bad situation for those in the category of Eri and Alcaray
- It's a good thing we're on flame.
- Are you saying that clean water and a house are innate and basic rights?
- A good argument can be made
- Not necessarily so.
- re: How can an invention be a basic right?