As Karen Fanning says,” Without proper treatment, common childhood illness like sore throats, ear infections, and asthma can have serious long term consequences.” For example if you were to fracture a bone and never went to the doctor to see if you had actually fractured it leaving it untreated for a long time could lead to you eventually having to chop off your arm due to the fact that it is full of bacteria. In fact, my cousin’s friend Juan Manuel once stepped on a nail while he was doing some yard work at his house, which lead to him having a hole in his leg. Everyone told him to go to the hospital since it looked like it could be extremely infected but he would always say,” Why go to the hospital to have a doctor charge me thousands of dollars to tell me what I already know.” Therefore, his solution was to just put some cream he had for his arm on his wound since the purpose of the cream was to kill bacteria. The only problem was that since he did not go to the doctor he was not aware that within his foot there was still part of the nail stuck within his foot, which was rotting it from the inside. Therefore, after a while he was not able to walk due to the pain that he felt when he would put pressure on the bottom of his foot, which made him …show more content…
Medical insurance will help you pay off your medical bills all you have to do is become a member of a medical insurance company. By paying them the money that they require you would be assured medical treatment without the worry of having to pay of the medical expenses right away with the hospital constantly sending you reminders of the bill you still have not paid. Also medical insurance gets you many other benefits as the webpage Discover says,” You get free preventive care, like vaccines, screenings, and some check-ups, even before you meet you are deductible.” Having medical insurance is the key to help many Americans that suffer from not being able to afford their medical treatment. Since health insurance protects you from unexpected, high medical costs. Everything sounds so great about medical insurance till you find out that you might have to be paying around 1,100 thousand dollars per household. That means that in order to avoid a gigantic bill that you would get in the hospital you get a slightly less bill that you still need to be paying over your whole lifetime. In addition, the thing with medical insurance is that it does not cover everything. Insurance companies will never put themselves in a position where they will lose money so there is always a way that they can get out of paying for the medical bills that their customer is facing. That is why many people in fact do not get