How Do I Pay For Medical Treatment Without Insurance?

What do you do if you are in a car accident and you are badly injured, but you have no health insurance? The emergency room will treat you right after the accident, and for any real, imminent medical emergencies caused by your injuries. But what about the non-emergency injuries? What about surgery that - while not an emergency - would make your life a lot better?

One possibility is called treatment on a lien. A lien is an interest in your case. So a doctor might treat you and agree to get paid out of anything you recover in the future.

Pete Clancy is a personal injury lawyer in Oakland.