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19. A friend urged me to check out Southside Community Health Services in Minneapolis

Reply to Hope22 (Reply #18)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:47 PM

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There's a sliding fee that begins at 100% of federal poverty guidelines and ends at 200% of FPG.

southside community health services sliding fee

https://www.google.com/search?q=southside+community+health+services+sliding+fee&sca_esv=2fdb4996cfdf24b0&sxsrf=AE3TifO4q5REwZQdU6WvP2fl-xkNs0BuUw%3A1756247085381&ei=LTSuaNqAF8T-ptQPguyegAc

It would be nice if medical care was free for everyone, then we wouldn't need the ACA or Medicare or Medicaid or any of that. As the righties keep saying, one can just show up in an emergency room where they have to treat everyone. Trouble is, they do enough to stabilize you and then you're back on the street.

As for my friend (whose income was very much on the low side), she found they didn't provide some services she needed, but fortunately managed to get on Medicaid.

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I certainly didn't think you made it up. Hope22 Aug 21 #10

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Where did you hear this? Hope22 Friday #18

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