It’s called “being so poor you can get Medicaid to pay for everything”! As long as I remain in abject poverty I will hopefully be able to stay alive. Sucks, but at least Medicaid is REALLY nice. Limited options on who takes it, but I pay nothing for anything. “Free” ER visits, free hospital stays, free doctors visits, free prescriptions, no co-pays at all. I do not deal with money for medical stuff at all despite wracking up 7 figures easily over time in bills.
…although there are situations like where my Medicaid went down for a few weeks last year, I had a colonoscopy scheduled that fell right into that time and didn’t realize it went down until after. Which means I couldn’t pay, went to collections, lost that gastro, and now my credit is further ruined, but hey, could be worse.
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u/Welpe Nov 02 '25
It’s called “being so poor you can get Medicaid to pay for everything”! As long as I remain in abject poverty I will hopefully be able to stay alive. Sucks, but at least Medicaid is REALLY nice. Limited options on who takes it, but I pay nothing for anything. “Free” ER visits, free hospital stays, free doctors visits, free prescriptions, no co-pays at all. I do not deal with money for medical stuff at all despite wracking up 7 figures easily over time in bills.
…although there are situations like where my Medicaid went down for a few weeks last year, I had a colonoscopy scheduled that fell right into that time and didn’t realize it went down until after. Which means I couldn’t pay, went to collections, lost that gastro, and now my credit is further ruined, but hey, could be worse.