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Topic: Insurance Issues

help with medical bills

11/2014 | 0 Comments

Help! I'm a 22 year old that just graduated from college and have medical bills adding up like crazy. I do have insurance but i still need help and...
help with medical bills

11/2014 | 1 Comments

Help! I'm a 22 year old that just graduated from college and have medical bills adding up like crazy. I do have insurance but i still need help and...
How i got cured from epilepsy

11/2014 | 0 Comments

I am from Canada, I was diagnosed of Epilepsy in 2004 then i was just 17years, the disease is so disgracing and embarassing because atimes i get...
Express Scripts

09/2014 | 3 Comments

Hello everyone, I have been living with epilepsy for 21 years now. I have been on Keppra and Vimpat for about 6 years and have been doin well. I have...
Hi everyone

09/2014 | 0 Comments

I only work on Sundays and I get 80% insurance there . The way I get my money is with Social Security . I would rather have a job to work at but the...
Life Insurance

06/2014 | 0 Comments

I recently went for life insurance quotes for my husband and me. He went through fine, but the broker said that they couldn't even get a quote for me...
Colorado Exchange Effects

05/2013 | 3 Comments

I am living in Virginia and considering a move to Colorado Springs. I live with my mother, who is moving to Florida next year, at which point I will...
I can't afford my epilepsy

03/2013 | 5 Comments

I am 23. I hac a seizur when I was 7. After that I would have horrible blinding migrains every few weeks. It was concluded that I have calcium...
Insurance advice

01/2013 | 0 Comments

Hello, I am in my mid-20s and have experienced a few grand mal seizures over the last couple years of my life. I have a few excuses for why I have not...
How to refuse Ambulance trips to ER?

11/2012 | 11 Comments

I've had several seizures over the past few years where I regain consciousness soon enough that a paramedic hasn't yet arrived but before I am not...
No insurance, need medicine

05/2012 | 3 Comments

I was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 13. I was initially prescribed Trileptol but was highly allergic to it so my doctor prescribed me Topamax. I also...
Prescription discount

02/2012 | 2 Comments

For those within the United States that do not have insurance or not good insurance there is a discount card online. I have not personally used it...
medication/ins

12/2011 | 0 Comments

If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them. I'm fixing to run out of my ex-husband's COBRA ins. and having to look around for my own. It's...
Just need to vent

12/2011 | 0 Comments

Hello.I was laid off of work in May and now I am on unemployment and looking for a job, no luck yet. I have no health insurance to pay for my dr...

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