> Next time when a bone in broken in your body I definitely would, why wouldn't you? Broken bones are urgent but usually not life threatening - in that situati

> Next time when a bone in broken in your body I definitely would, why wouldn't you? Broken bones are urgent but usually not life threatening - in that situation I'd definitely take a few minutes to decide how exactly to handle the situation - call an ambulance, or have a friend drive me to the hospital? ER, urgent care, or GP? Lots of options with different trade-offs, even if cost wasn't one of them! Urgent, life and death situations are obviously a special case but are also a pretty small percentage of medical care at least IME. My wife has had quite a bit of medical care over the last few years including having 3 kids and several unrelated, important but not immediately life or death surgeries. In every case we evaluated several options before picking a Dr and a hospital. We looked at price, recs from friends, distance from home, reviews, etc just like picking a restaurant or a new car. Even in the few urgent life/death ER visits we've had we still picked where to go, we just picked ahead of time - when we get a new insurance plan we usually glance through it to make sure we know what are the closest ERs and urgent cares that are covered, and if there are multiple options we'll pick a default. Again I don't know why someone wouldn't do that, even if our healthcare were free we'd still compare on other metrics.