[ SECRET POST #4045 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4045 ⌋

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Comments

Medical Stuff

[ari_griffin]

I don't have health insurance. I am currently technically unemployed, but get some money making crafts and doing odd jobs. I tried signing up for Medicaid, but was told that I do not qualify because I am not pregnant.
I've been going to a local sliding scale clinic. I had an appointment yesterday. The doctor I had been seeing left the practice, so I had a new doctor. I was describing what has been going on and the doctor said that I might have MS. He is going to see if I qualify for any assistance with getting a MRI or another test done. After reading up on it, it really sounds like I have it.

Re: Medical Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure that I'm buying the "can't get medicaid if you're not pregnant" thing. I'm not doubting that they told you that, I'm just not sure that's entirely legal. What state are you in? If you can get health insurance, MS is actually fairly treatable these days. If you're not eligible for medicare or a low-cost state plan, you might need to start looking for a crappy job with a healthcare benefit.

Re: Medical Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

No, if ari is in a state with a Republican legislature and/or governor, then the state probably refused the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Before Obamacare kicked in, the only way to get Medicaid coverage if you were a woman who wasn’t disabled was to have breast cancer, be pregnant, or have children under five. In many Republican-controlled states, that’s still the case, because fuck the poor.

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[soldatsasha]

Some states are REALLY fucky with the requirements.

Like I had an online friend who lived in... I think MS or AL but idr anymore, somewhere deep south at any rate.... but her state used to have a thing where you couldn't be on food stamps if you made more than some ridiculously low amount (like $5k a year or something), but you couldn't be on medicaid if you didn't also qualify for food stamps. (Unless you were pregnant or disabled.)

And during the great recession I tried getting on food stamps and I couldn't, bc I'd been unemployed for more than six months. To qualify I would have had to spend some sort of bullshit state-mandated five hours per day at this govt center job-hunting, and then provide proof that I'd been sending out apps and getting interviews and shit. Which, obv I couldn't afford to drive 60mi every fucking day so I just didn't eat.

All that said, it's worth it to look more closely at what options are available.