HairyChick

It isn't just lack of insurance. Lack of intelligence is a huge factor. If you have a cough for months on end,don't ignore it and think it's a bad cold.

Fear is a factor. I know this from personal experience.

That article is a generalization of assumption, not fact. People claim Canadian healthcare is free and awesome. I dated a guy from Canada who told me that it's free BUT you can wait months to get an appointment to see a doctor. I'd rather go to an ER, plead indigent status, and get free healthcare right away.

IN a public hospital, the ER can't reject you due to lack of money. States and government allot funds for poor folks to get medical treatment. I learned that as a kid at the ER, when drunks and druggies and gunshot victims showed up with no insurance.

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