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02-01-2008, 04:22 PM
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Points: 14,045, Level: 76 | Level up: 77%, 5 Points needed | | Geez, sounds like a slam right there by him. For how many hospitals would turn patients away if they didn't have (1) health insurance and (2) money to pay for the services?
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02-01-2008, 04:54 PM
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Points: 20,634, Level: 90 | Level up: 91%, 216 Points needed | | A hospital can't turn you away if you have an emergency. But if you just come in with a big tumor, the first question will be whether or not you have insurance.
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Originally Posted by highway80west  She got injured twice while on the job. She had several surgeries on her back and knees. She is in constant pain all day long. She wishes she could work, but her mobility is so limited now. She can't play tug with her dog. She can't lift, she can't climb ladders. She had cages put inside her back, then they were taken out in favor of rods. She very nearly died on the operating table a few years ago. | Yeah, she got issues. What kinda benefits her company have for that?
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02-01-2008, 09:34 PM
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Level up: 9%, 23 Points needed | | I was given medicaid through the katie becket wavier for having Asperger's syndrome. They recently took it away, but it did help pay for a lot of things. | |
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02-01-2008, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dustin I was given medicaid through the katie becket wavier for having Asperger's syndrome. They recently took it away, but it did help pay for a lot of things. | Dustin, isn't that because Katie Beckett is based on your parents' income?
I wonder, when you are 18, will you be able to collect SSI...
YOU don't have to say. I only wonder that.
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02-01-2008, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by OhDear Dustin, isn't that because Katie Beckett is based on your parents' income?
I wonder, when you are 18, will you be able to collect SSI...
YOU don't have to say. I only wonder that.
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| Well having a single mom, that wasn't the issue, the issue was that they insisted that I could not exist outside nursing home care, and my mom and the doctors could not honestly sign that then they ran out of funds and yanked it all together. I may be able to apply for SSI, I just haven't yet. | |
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