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My friend lives with my family and her health insurance doesn’t cover her anymore. We can’t put her on ours, and I don’t know how to help her find new insurance! We’re college students, and our jobs are only part time due to the massive course loads we have to take– how do I help? How can I find her some new health insurance?

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Dr. Ralph's Beard 75 #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (20 minutes after post)

Is she sick? Surely she can wait until she graduates to get insurance… plus if you don’t own anything health care is free. You just go to the emergency room and they send you a bill which you throw away. It’s only people who own houses and have savings that have to worry about insurance. She has nothing to lose.

Help me with: They just started year round school here and the kids are on fall break.

flamingros #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (24 minutes after post)

She’s not sick, and she doesn’t normally get sick. But she has migraines and needs medication, and if that doesn’t work, she had to go in to get a MRI. And she doesn’t have the funds to pay for all of it. Also, she needs a cavity filled. So, currently, she’s not sick, but she does have need of insurance.

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Dr. Ralph's Beard 75 #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 39 minutes after post)

Medication for migranes? Excedrin is available OTC… A cavity costs about $200 to fill, that’s cheaper than insurance. If you can’t afford insurance you can’t afford health care. The idea behind insurance is so you can pay every month your entire life and then when you are 65 you can get open heart surgery and you will have paid for it in small increments. Insurance companies like to make money too…

Help me with: They just started year round school here and the kids are on fall break.

C. S. 5 #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (2 hours, 40 minutes after post)

Dr. Ralph, just a note- My mom has chronic headaches/migraines… and even the prescriptions barely work. It takes a combination of 3 drugs- just so they aren’t debilitating all the time. She still, ALWAYS has a mild headache, even with the drugs. Regular pain relievers do nothing.

This is a rare case, but my mom will always be a person who needs insurance. Also, she gets her money’s worth EVERY month. So don’t assume the situation.

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