i'm scared to ask my parents to take me to the doctor?

[Starnique]

The op needs to google public health or obgyn care for women for her state. I don't know about a hospital but I was referring to her getting this set up so she can get annuals, birth control or if she is having any issues cause she's a young lady now and it can be confidential and her parents won't have anything to do with it.

Public health is ok here. Nothing is like a personal doctor but I do know that the public health for women offer everything just like a private gyno. My gyno don't see men but public health do but only if they got something, stuff like that. They will see them.

Its not ideal but then again, nothing dealing with public assistance is. That's why it should be a stepping stone until u get better but u got to do what u got to do.

Too bad some people make a life with it. It wasn't designed for that but that's a whole different story =)

[Wakeup]

at 21 if I was afraid to ask my parents to drive me to the hospital then I'd ask a friend to drive or I'd take a cab. If it was anything serious, then my parents would be called. I don't think they'd yell a me if I was seriously ill.

Op: Time to learn to be a tad more independent. Yes?

[vashti]

My son is 20 and they ask me to sign the insurance form as the main insured. I don't know if it varies by state. Colleges also offer insurance to kids for minimal amount and that, they don't need the parents to sign the insurance form when seen in the clinic or hospital.

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I don't know Smackie... My son goes to college in my State and he can go alone to his pediatrician because they have my insurance file with them. But if he needs to be referred to a specialist, they make him sign a form and I also have to sign the same form being the main policy holder. We've never Been in a situation where he was out of state and got sick, so I really don't know how it works.

But like starnique had mentioned, if he went to a public hospital or clinic, he will pay a very small fee to be seen by MD and they keep everything confidential.

I don't know...My daughter signed all her own forms for a brain surgery because she is over 18.