Pay Less for Medical Bills

For those without health insurance, remember you can let the medical provider know and ask for a discount. I have done this and gotten 10-35% discounts. Usually this means paying right away; however if you have no insurance and ask to make a payment plan, the medical providers can still give a discount. For instance, a relative had a bill from the hospital. I forget the exact figures but do remember that if he had insurance the bill came to over 20 thousand dollars (the relative had been in the hospital for about five days- the docs insisted on giving him a whole lot of tests though he did not really need them in my opinion if one looked at his history). Since he did not have insurance, the medical bill came to around fifteen thousand. Another relative of mine had a bill of around six thousand because of surgery needed to fix a broken arm. He did not have a job yet. Because the hospital had grants, they forgave the whole bill. Both of these examples happened in Texas. My friend in Kansas was in between jobs within the past year. He hurt his arm and explained his job status. They gave him coverage that lasted for a year; it paid 100 percent of his medical needs. These stories give truth to the adage, "Ask and you shall receive." Here are more thoughts on the matter. http://understandthetruth.blogspot.com/2008/09/subsidizing-pride-with-taxes-reasons.html. One more example, my mom got 100 percent medical coverage for everything but prescriptions which were a $3 copay at MD Anderson because she applied for financial aid. This required truthfulness and humbleness and a lot of forms to fill. "Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find." That is somewhere in the Bible.

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Help for people who need it that won't increase taxes

Do we have students at universities providing services in real case scenarios for people in need- for instance having medical students give exams with teacher supervision to people who have trouble paying medical bills, student architects making blueprints for houses for people whose insurance are shirking their responsibilities, marketing and communication students doing homework by helping non profits who need people with those skills, student lawyers giving free legal advice to people with low incomes who need advice? Basically couldn't teachers in universities and some high school and across all grades give real life homework that could help people and be supervised so they would have a good impact? Let's work smarter and have some real accountability; doing this more could really help and boost people's self worth, and it would likely get them to volunteer more instead of escaping into booze, drugs, television, video games, and more. Let's live it up for real.

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In Texas public education there is a 1:1 teacher to education personnel ratio for proof click here. Please sign the petition at the link in the last sentence and write a letter to local politicians to fix the schools. Click here to write them.
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I want one of these machines. They cost around 13k. Let me know if you want to pitch in. Happy new year! * This has subtitles.