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>In the US, there are people who can't access healthcare at all - not because there's not enough providers, but simply because they don't have enough money. Th
by gozur88 9y ago
>In the US, there are people who can't access healthcare at all - not because there's not enough providers, but simply because they don't have enough money.
That's not true. We have public hospitals, and we also have Medicaid.
- vertex-four 9y agoNope. I know plenty of people personally who are in the situation where they make too much money to be on Medicaid, but not enough to be on health insurance that'll actually cover anything without a deductible in the thousands. Obamacare made things better, but it's still very far from covering what universal healthcare covers for many. Public hospitals do not treat people for free.
- gozur88 9y agoPublic hospitals don't treat people for free officially, but the reality is most of the people don't pay and they won't refuse to treat you.
- vertex-four 9y agoThe only situation in which a hospital is required to treat you - public hospitals included - is if you go to ER and are not in a stable condition. They will not provide e.g. medicine for lifelong chronic conditions, or the tests required to make sure that medicine isn't killing you until you're practically already dead. They won't provide necessary surgery unless you're literally about to die from not having it. They won't provide psychiatric help. It is not a treatment option for anything except a car crash or severe acute illness.