This is part two in a series I am doing this week on health care reform, from a personal viewpoint. Given the fact that I’ve lost a home, ruined my credit and spent ten years being turned away from mainstream medical care, due to not having health insurance, I have some input to lend here.
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No insurance. No doctor. You’re screwed. (part 2)
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Sick? No Insurance. No Doctor. You’re screwed. (Part 1)
What’s it like to be ill and be turned away by a doctor? How about needing checkups, medication, scans or mammograms when you can’t find a health care facility to treat you?
This week, I’d like to take you on a walk in the shoes of those who have no health care. I am one of those [...]
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What Am I Willing to Sacrifice?
Getting a mortgage, post bankruptcy has proven the Holy Grail of my current credit pilgrimage. In former bleaker fiscal times, I had neither credit nor income to even ponder the possibility. I rented a nice home, or rather a series of them. Like many with poor credit, I was at the mercy of landlords. I [...]
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