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Yep lol reminds me of a story my dad told me. He was working on a building and adding the interior siding (it's since been converted into a hog pen) when he smashed his thumb bad with a hammer. He decided that it was a good time to take a quick lunch break after wrapping up his thumb before driving to the hospital

Ah yes, farming equipment. The kind of machines thats almost made to mangle humans.

Did he get to keep the hand?

My dad got his hand caught in a hay conveyor. Two of the tines caught the back of his hand and made two gouges a couple inches apart.

It was the only time I'd ever heard him say "Ow."

I feel so awful some people have to choose. This dude just didn't wanna go. We go socialized health care here rho

Choose financial. You live.

Use bankruptcy. There's a reason for it.

Make payment plans. If you're truly poor, you basically pay $30 a month for like 20 years and it's discharged.

It's very scary when it's a meme and people don't know their options since it's often gatekeeped.

Same, my partner nearly died around the same age from a tiny infected glass cut that developed cellulitis.

As a former heroin addict (clean for a decade at least) I am terrified to be treated that way.

I’ve made it clear to anyone with any decision making ability in my life that unless they say, “he’s dying, there’s no hope.” they are to refuse opioids even if I’m begging and pleading.

Doctors don’t know I feel that strongly about it, but they can pull up my chart and see that I’ve been a junkie in my life. I hate that.

Is that EPP? My partner's childhood best friend has one of the worst EPP reactions known to medical literature. I can't imagine anything that sounds half as bad.

Heh, I would, but unfortunately every time I go there and they blow me off they charge me at least a few hundred dollars. Of course I’ll never pay that, but this is why folks don’t go to the emergency room.

Also, I just want to add that this isn’t a small hospital. This is the world famous UAB hospital. You’ve probably never heard of it, but UAB the college and hospital pretty much are Birmingham, Al.

I live in Alabama. We have Medicaid but at a whopping 14k a year I was told I make too much. I have applied many times. I am also a stay at home parent for a special needs child. But every time it comes back denied.

I went and registered for a charity hospital. The thing they seemed hung up on was how much my rent is. But I’m having to pay $50 a visit to go there. Which is full price.

I don’t know. Honestly, I have come to terms with the fact that I will die relatively young. Lack of medical care is a real thing. Just to be clear. I’m not saying that I am going to do anything to speed up the process on purpose. But I’m an old millennial and my quality of life has plummeted. As I’ve stated in other threads life just isn’t fun anymore.

For the last year, maybe more, I’ve had a pain in my side. I originally thought, “Well, fuck. I’m overdue for kidney stones. I must be a tougher bastard than I thought, because my grandpa and uncle are huge tough men who were reduced to toddlers over this.”

It went away for a couple months and recently came back. It got hard to sit down if I’d been standing and hard to stand if I’d been sitting (but not so hard that I’m crippled or anything). That has changed recently from this dull hollow ache to this kind of sharp pain like something went from swollen to withered. It isn’t something that is putting me out of commission, it just sucks.

On top of that my mouth was hurting every morning, now it’s most of the day. I thought it might be my wisdom tooth, but I should have periods that are pain free. I took antibiotics that my friend was prescribed before she had work done to see if that would help if there was infection. It didn’t.

I’m gonna have to bite the bullet and go to the doctor soon.

If I’m dealing with serious issues, I don’t know if it would be better to kick the bucket and spare my family or deal with the nightmare of bills and travel and loss of my meager income. At least if I die, they can get social security checks to keep them afloat until my lady finds a good man. She’s a spectacular woman and she definitely deserves better than me.

It sucks that our health is a for profit system. It’s hard to trust anyone who is out for money.

I have a friend with ulcerative colitis. Her insurance company didn’t want to pay for the only medicine that has worked for her and now she’s relying on a charity to pay for the meds.

What a fucking joke. I’m almost rebellious enough to get a tattoo that says, “haha, tell the doctors and pharmaceutical companies that they didn’t get shit from this corpse” and just die and have a shirtless funeral and encourage people to take pictures and post time online.

Any positive health outcomes provided are a fortunate byproduct - they certainly won't be delivered if they're unprofitable.

While the US healthcare system is certainly fucked up, this isn't really true. Emergency rooms are required by law to administer care, regardless of someone's ability to pay, and a lot of hospitals will waive the cost if you apply for financial assistance and have limited income. Granted, they're not going to see you for physical therapy, and other required follow-up care, but they administer unprofitable healthcare all the time. In poorer neighborhoods people use the ER as a primary care facility, since that's the only place they can be seen without money or insurance.