Anonymous
Not referred to your situation but as general information since I saw several people missing this when they evaluate if getting health insurance. When you are insured you pay for services the amount agreed between insurance and doctors which can be discounted as much 70-80% vs what uninsured people pay.
Getting on the soap box, I think this is a very unfair practice because that level of discount is not justified by the higher volume of patients accepting any insurance bring into a doctor office. If Obama was serious about affordable health care, he would have addressed that issue for example mandating that uninsured patients cannot be charged more than x% above insured rates. It makes me think that uninsured people pay for what insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid do not want to pay.