Do you have private health insurance...??

[IRescue452]

No insurance here, unfortunately.

In WI you only qualify for any assistance if you are pregnant, elderly, disabled, or under the poverty level that hasn't been updated since 1960. The biggest group hit is single people between 19 and 35 with no families. I fall into that range. I have a full-time job but can't get on insurance until next January, if I can afford it. Wisconsin's healthcare definately perpetuates the truth that you don't get help unless you drop out of high school and have 5 kids by the time you are 18.

[Nomilynn]

Since I lost my job, I do not have any extended health insurance. However, since in Canada it is the law for everyone to have government supplemented health insurance, I am still able to see a doctor, go to the hospital, etc without having to pay. I pay a premium every month that gets me these services. If I was unable to pay this premium, I would still get the services, and they would arrange a payment plan with me for when I was earning income again.

I am also a type 1 diabetic. So, without my medication and doctors, I would die. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about that since I know I'm covered.

There are private clinics in BC that people have the option of using, but they still have to pay into the governement plan. I pray that my province/ country would NEVER convert to a plan like what is in the states, because I'm pretty sure that I would be far worse off than how I am now.