Yeah technically hospitals are supposed to treat you even if they know you can’t pay, but in practice hospitals refuse to deal with a lot of things that you otherwise need to make payments for, often times hospital doctors/nurses will just give you cold medicine and send you home if you go in for a lot of things that really should have something done about them, so if you can’t afford healthcare outside of a hospital (say, a prescription medication you really need) you’re kind of fucked.
In places I know of outside of the US, it’s the norm to go to hospitals for basically anything and people literally use ambulances like they’re fucking taxis because it’s basically free. ((Italians))
The American healthcare system doesn’t usually immediately kill you if you can’t pay, but it definitely kills you gradually if you can’t.
Yeah technically hospitals are supposed to treat you even if they know you can’t pay, but in practice hospitals refuse to deal with a lot of things that you otherwise need to make payments for, often times hospital doctors/nurses will just give you cold medicine and send you home if you go in for a lot of things that really should have something done about them, so if you can’t afford healthcare outside of a hospital (say, a prescription medication you really need) you’re kind of fucked.
In places I know of outside of the US, it’s the norm to go to hospitals for basically anything and people literally use ambulances like they’re fucking taxis because it’s basically free. ((Italians))
The American healthcare system doesn’t usually immediately kill you if you can’t pay, but it definitely kills you gradually if you can’t.