Care Without Coverage
Community health centers, free clinics, sliding scales, and prescriptions you can afford.
- Care Across the Border: What Uninsured Texans Do, and How to Judge It
June 29, 2026
Border pharmacies, dental work, and the operation nobody can afford at home. What uninsured Americans actually do, and the follow-up problem they plan least.
- Care and Immigration Status in Texas: What Is Available Regardless
June 2, 2026
EMTALA applies regardless of status, and federally funded health centers serve everyone. What asks about status, what does not, and what we never record.
- Cash Prices and Self-Pay Discounts: Ask Before the Service, Not After
June 1, 2026
The self-pay rate is frequently below the billed charge, and uninsured patients hold a good faith estimate right under federal law that almost nobody uses.
- Mental Health Care Without Insurance: Texas Local Authorities and 988
May 28, 2026
Thirty-seven local mental health authorities and two behavioral health authorities, each with a 24/7 referral line. What they charge is the unpublished part.
- Dental Care Without Insurance in Texas: Health Centers and Dental Schools
May 25, 2026
An emergency room can treat the pain and the infection but will not fix the tooth. Health center dental, four Texas dental school clinics, and the time trade.
- Insulin Without Insurance in Texas: Do Not Ration, and the Routes That Exist
May 20, 2026
Rationing insulin is the fastest route to a hospital admission. The layers an uninsured Texan can work, and why this page publishes no manufacturer cap figure.
- Patient Assistance Programs: Manufacturer Help and the Paperwork It Takes
May 18, 2026
Most large drug manufacturers run one, each with its own income rules and its own form. Where to search, what the application asks, and who signs which part.
- Prescriptions Without Insurance: Working a Texas Price Down, In Order
May 15, 2026
Generics, the health center pharmacy, cash price shopping, and the three drugs a month a Texas county must pay for. The order to work a prescription in.
- EMTALA and the Emergency Room: The Right to Be Seen, and the Bill After
May 11, 2026
Screening and stabilization regardless of ability to pay, in force since 1986. The three things EMTALA is not, and why the bill afterwards still shocks people.
- Urgent Care Against the Emergency Room: Choosing Under Pressure in Texas
May 8, 2026
Which door to use when you are uninsured and something is wrong tonight: what urgent care cannot handle, what EMTALA covers, and what each bill looks like.
- How the Sliding Scale Works: The Federal Discount Schedule, Tier by Tier
May 3, 2026
Full discount at or below 100% of the poverty guidelines, three pay classes to 200%, nothing above. What the discount covers, and the bills it does not.
- Free and Charitable Clinics: Their Own Rules, and a Higher Income Ceiling
April 30, 2026
Volunteer staffed, narrower hours, and typically serving 100% to 300% of the poverty level. The clinic worth trying when a health center has said no.
- Getting Care Without Insurance in Texas: Where to Actually Be Seen
April 27, 2026
No program will take you? Here is the map of what exists anyway: health centers, free clinics, sliding scales, and what a front desk really asks you to bring.
- Community Health Centers in Texas: What They Must Charge, and How to Register
April 24, 2026
Texas had 71 federally funded health center organizations serving 1,859,052 patients in 2024. What they must charge you, and how to get on the books first.