Even when health care is free people will still refuse. Former volunteer EMT from Australia read the post expecting the normal straight out refusal. People woul

Even when health care is free people will still refuse. Former volunteer EMT from Australia read the post expecting the normal straight out refusal. People would refuse treatment, relatives wring hands, but at least you could start talking about having them certified insane. That always worked except for one case were we started the process and it dawned on the gentleman that he would rather go to hospital than be labelled mad. People would also want to avoid some hospitals and with little choice we would take them further and a fair part of the time they would have a worsening of the chest pain or worse still, arrest. Glad we didn't have to worry about hospital bills. Would be really frustrating to have to remove equipment/treatment, drive away and hope for a worsening.