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Hello friends! I have a question about using so called "sliding fee scale" at the clinic. So our income wasn't good for the last 3 months and I have this pain in my arm for 2 months, was afraid to go to the doctor since we don't have insurance right now, we are currently on the waiting list for the local clinic (they use sliding fee scale) but I don't think I can make it waiting for them to call me, so I scheduled an appointment for the hospital clinic in 2 weeks from now and they do sliding fee scale plus some other programs to help cover the medical bill for uninsured people.

Anyway, my question is: does USCIS consider "sliding fee scale" a "public charge"? Since clinics report SSN number and everything to the government to cover medical bill I got paranoid about it, I never got a penny from US government and now when I need it I am afraid.

I am conditional permanent resident, will file for removing of conditions in January 2019 and then for naturalization in 2020, do you guys think this "government helping to pay medical bill" situation can somehow affect my immigration journey?

Also, I am applying for insurance right now on the healthcare.gov but I keep getting an error that they can't verify my identity!!! They ask to upload a picture of the document and I did but they keep giving me an error.

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