Texas college student in desperate need of health/dental insurance

Hi everyone, I am 21 years old living in Texas. I currently work full time due to having to take a gap year cause I'm helping take care of my parents due to some events that happened earlier this semester. I am a teacher assistant at a preschool and am now making 20/hr but more than half of my check goes towards rent,car payment/insurance/bills, they also don't offer health insurance at my job.

My health has been declining a lot within this past year so I wanted to hop on here and ask for any ideas on what options there are available.

I have a pituitary brain tumor that I was supposed to get removed three years ago but as soon as I turned 18 the government took me off CHIP. Along with that I have Hypothyroidism and Hashimotos disease, aswell as PCOS. Before I was 18 I was on 3-4 different medications that was supposed to help treat all those things but it was short lived because I was diagnosed within a few months of turning 18. I have reached out to my previous clinic to try getting back on the medications but they were soo expensive.

I have been trying to find health insurance but it is insanely expensive as I pay bills of my own and my parents. I don't have anyone who can add me to their insurance since my parents don't have any as well so I am here wondering if anyone my age knows how to go about getting a relatively decent priced health insurance and also dental?

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