Now we need health care quick..

On Wednesday night my 29 year old son tried to snowboard in a field at midnight. Guess what, he broke or tore his left clavicle! Didn't get home from the hospital till early Thursday morning and he gave me papers about a follow up. That's when the fun began. I called the first number, because the hospital referred us to them. They said that they have to get paid before they will see him. Now, my son has no job, has no money, lives with us, but has nothing to even sell for money. The hospital, the doctors office and the clinc's office all have reasons to NOT see my son, but at the same time have no idea what I can do to help him. As he is still in AGONY I have to figure that it is torn and will have to have surgery to correct it. I even got him the state form for insurance, but they won't cover him, this time! Now what do I do, any ideas? I made an appointment at the original Orthopedic Surgeon's office and will ask to speak to the office manager if it get's bad. But, and here is the problem, if we HAD HEALTH CARE implemented NOW it wouldn't be such a problem now! And I'm one of 100,000 with the same problem nationwide. Torn cartilage or tendons and no one will look at me because we don't have insurance!

Health Care

My husband has been sick since before Christmas, in fact ever since he got the regular flu shot! Because he works two states away, he didn't want to carry anything home to us, so he got the flu shot. He was even concerned about one of our grandchildren who comes and spends the weekend with us. Since I don't get exposed to as many people as he does, he thought he was doing the right thing. But now, it has been over 2 months and he is STILL sick. How do you tell the doctor that he has been sick for so long? As it is he won't go o a doctor, he's too miserable! Remember when the federal government told us that they were working to get health care for everyone, what happen to that? Or are they like my husband, too sick to do anything about it. Let hope he gets some help soon, hope they get straightened out soon too.