Clarification/Follow-up by tarot10 on 09/13/04 3:38 am:
You might contact the government agency in your state that regulates insurances. Here is the one for California. If they have a phone number, you might be able to talk to someone in person.

http://www.insurance.ca.gov/docs/FS-Brochures.htm

Clarification/Follow-up by tarot10 on 09/13/04 4:38 pm:
In the USA if people become too sick to work or too poor, they can become elgible for government paid medical insurance called MediCare and MediCal. They might need to be US citizens or legal aliens though.

www.medicare.gov