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Hiku said:
Getting sick if poor sounds pretty scary. Your family may have gotten by, but there are a lot of scary stories about insurances not covering necessary operations or medicine. Even something as simple as getting bit by a dog cost my friend in Florida $4000 out of his own pocket for the shots, and he's a student.

If you make less than or equal to $1,300 on average per month in Pennsylvania (as a single person with no kids), you qualify for Medicaid. Medicaid plans are equivalent to, if not better than, gold/silver plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Copays are something like $0-2. Pretty much everything is covered, even things like chiropractical care and eye care.