Posted by stjames on March 15, 2003, at 19:40:26
In reply to Re: Basic biology blood work for those who may know, posted by Larry Hoover on March 15, 2003, at 10:48:13
but aren't there hospitals that have to treat you, regardless of your insurance status? Health should not depend on financial status (an unabashedly political opinion).
Yes and no. You really have to be smart and advocate if the treatment is free. On the the staff, a guy in his 20's just died from XLA. He
had been seeing free clinics all his life for the
infections and no one asked the question "Why is
a young man getting so many infections". 3 days before he died the hospital started giving him gamma globlin, which his body did not make, due to XLA. That is all the treatment he ever needed to live a normal life. But it was too late.
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