The ER doctor was on the phone in another room yelling for 10 minutes before he sent me home. I spent the prior 3 months carrying financial paperwork to this hospital once a week attempting to get prenatal care, I was married and had 18 month old twins my husband and I both worked but did not make anywhere near enough money to afford insurance, and the hospital needed more and more and more paperwork, but I never saw a doctor until the baby was dead.
I am not sure if we had medicaid for pregnant women in Texas at the time, but you see I was married so I likely would not have qualified for it.
It was McKinney's county hospital, 3 months after the c section I contacted Parkland, told them about my lie and offered to help them sue the crap out of Mckinney. They had an indigent fund there but they specialized in not using it. Parkland didn't want to pursue it. In 1984 a CSection was about $5000, I was better employed when I had the twins. They were also delivered at Parkland.
JPS fort worth offers indigent emergency room care. I went there once in 1990. Both my husband and I were unemployed, it was a simple infection. I did paperwork and waited 12 hours for care, they prescribed drugs I had an allergic reaction to after I told them I was allergic to sulfa antibiotics, I called the day the rash turned up (after 3 doses), had a new job to start in the morning, they wouldn't call in a different prescription wanted me to sit down there for another 12 hours, I went to work, treated the infection with cranberry juice, and never paid the bill of nearly $1000 for functionally lousy care. I let it sit on my credit report for 7 years til it rolled off.
