>anyone who is legally resident in the UK can walk into a hospital and get largely the same healthcare as anyone else This is true in the US too. Hospitals do

>anyone who is legally resident in the UK can walk into a hospital and get largely the same healthcare as anyone else This is true in the US too. Hospitals don't just refuse care unless they consider you "well enough" which unfortunately happens sometimes but its not per policy. Same thing in the UK though... I know a guy who's next door neighbor's dad died because he couldn't get an ambulance or basically any "urgent care." Didn't have a car and they refused to send an ambulance for some reason. They called the police to try to get them to help but they were too late. I don't know the details but he was fuming mad about it.