That said, if you need medical consultation, get it, through whatever means are available to you. If I were in a financial tight spot and the options are "wait

That said, if you need medical consultation, get it, through whatever means are available to you. If I were in a financial tight spot and the options are "wait for it to be bad enough for insurance to cover it" and "get early care to prevent it from ever getting that bad, but over an insecure channel" I would personally choose the latter. YMMV