Originally Posted by D_HOLLAND

Wow, interesting topic:

I have never been on any public assistance my whole life - even when my husband left, was on unemployment and did receive a dime in child support.

But (of course you knew that was coming)

When Chris started have his sx's - I first took him to a neurologist which cost me $150 (Chris was unemployed at the time) he said to take him to our county hospital's ER because the tests that were going to be necessary would break me.

Well, a year 1/2 later Chris is on disability and medicaid. I feel almost guilty that he has no out of pocket expenses for medications/doctors/hospitals, but I don't know what other alternatives there were - I sure couldn't afford these expenses and I feel so sorry for you that have insurance and have to come up with so much of the costs, it just doesn't see fair.