It's weird to be true. WHO talks about universal health coverage whereas America works totally differently in here whereas most of the countries align to it.
Actually insurance or not the hospital has to treat you if it’s an emergency or life threatening or you just went to er because you are sick. You just will be given a bill. Which if you don’t pay goes to collection agency which gets passed to other agencies if you don’t pay and if you don’t pay after 6 yrs it disappears. Plus medical bills don’t hurt your credit.
If you are there for anything other than er than they insist on some way of paying.
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When I had my emergency (life or death) surgery, I didn't have insurance at the time and would have been left with a 18k bill and some change. The hospital refered us to an emergency fund ran by donations from many of the richer citizens of my state and everything worked out, the only reason being that I was super septic from an infection that had spread of the dead part of my umm...issue. Pretty thankful of that hospital and the emergency fund that saved my life since I didn't have insurance and it's the only hospital I go to now out of three others near me.
Not strictly speaking true. The ER doctor has to treat you. Now, if you have potentially fatal cancer, they don’t have to give you chemo.... but they do have to try to give you CPR when the cancer does kill you *rolls eyes*. So... the difference is mostly the speed with which the condition will kill you.
If you are there for anything other than er than they insist on some way of paying.