You think that's sad...We lost our insurance when my husband shut down his business, so we have to pay for that same $500 ambulance ride out of our own pockets---for us and the illegals!!!
They get every kind of test and treatment available, while we pay for it!!! We, however, have to ensure that any tests or treatments are truly necessary...and hope we're right!
How many AMERICANS have to die waiting for an Emergency Room Doctor or treatment because of ILLEGAL ALIENS??? Well, that's too many!!!
Using a take on the liberals' argument, "If even one [American's] life can be saved by..." arresting and deporting illegal aliens,...it's worth it.
I hear that. I paid for my own for over 20 years. It was more than my former house payments and more than my former car payments.
I never put in a claim. Paid for my own medications, didn't have dental, so paid for that. Paid for my own exams. That's all. I was never sick.
Finally, to cut back on expenses, I canceled it, so I'd have extra money for my 2nd business. Two years after that, I became very sick. Tried for a year to fix it with antihistamines, anti-inflammatories, better nutrition, more exercise, the usual. Only got a little better, then worse - now it's chronic, an asthma-like condition that may be asthma or may be heart disease mimicking asthma. It's triggered by mold spores and humidity.
Still haven't seen a doctor - no money, no car, no one to help me. Can't do much of anything most days. Didn't qualify for SSDI because they didn't count my SE tax in SocSec.
Play by the rules all your life, pay your bills and taxes, take responsibility for yourself, don't commit to long-term debt if you can't afford it - and where does it get you? On the garbage heap, if you miss 3 payments on a $300 Target charge card while trying to make money by selling off some things of yours, to satisfy a landlord - who kicks you out, anyway.
That's life. "Sort of."
I really really feel for you. It's very hard to get good insurance for the non-multi-millionnaire self-employed. And of course ALL OF US pay for the illegals though none of us want them here.
We were on Maui recently and my little son needed to go to the ER for a couple hours. It could have been appendix, said the doc we saw, so we took him in (it was just bad constipation).
The wait to get in was maybe 15 minutes. Inside, the doctors and nurses were so friendly and efficient, with plenty of time to talk to my little boy and make him comfortable (he had to endure an IV). THERE WERE NO ILLEGAL ALIENS in there. There were plenty of patients of all stripes, but NO ILLEGALS.
After the experience, when I was relieved my boy was OK, I said "What are we doing in CA? What are we ACCEPTING? We are like those FROGS!" We are like the frogs who, if placed in boiling water, will hop right out to save themselves, but if placed in tepid water, with the temperature rising slowly, will be fooled into being boiled to death. We are slowly being boiled to death here with these illegals in our ERs and schools and everywhere.