How to Obtain Health Care Without Insurance
For the 50 million people without insurance in the United States, this blog is for you. How do you obtain health care if you have no insurance? There are four basic methods for accessing care sans health insurance financing and they are; pay with cash or credit per clinical visit, frequent public health centers in urban areas, access community health centers in rural and metropolitan areas, and use the old standby, hospital emergency departments. The average person who is without insurance may feel there are no options other than paying out of pocket for treatment and worse yet, frequenting the emergency room for care. The lack of health insurance does limit the number of clinicians who will serve the patient, but there are two institutional remedies in America, the public health system and federally qualified health clinics. Both of these organizations are designed to provide primary health care on an as-needed basis for under-served populations, including the uninsured. CHC-Community...