Buttrfli....a little confused because I thought a person had to have medicare to have medicaid or are you saying that you no longer have medicaid either?

It took a long time (6mo-1 yr?) after being approved for disability to have the medicare kick in......& I thought that medicaid covered everything that medicare covers but helps for the lower incomes.

However I understand because I won't even go to an MD most of the time because of the extra cost & it's money I don't have. When I fractured my back however I was forced to take care of myself & I just made arrangements to make payments of $5/month.....they didn't have any problem with that....LOL...I just lowered my grocery bill to help pay for that though....so it's not always a good solution.

Honestly, there are many hospital bills that I just walked away from & there was nothing they could do because there was no money to pay. Now I just refuse to get back into that kind of situation. Going to a walk in clinic is less $. Do you have an MD you could go to.....their office visits can be much less than an ER visit.