Please look around you a little more. My buddy separated his shoulder snowboarding in Tahoe. He had a full time (40 hours a week) job at the time, but it didn't provide healthcare.
He couldn't afford to go to hospital, so never did. I was visiting from Australia at the time and was utterly horrified, having no idea the US worked like that. Now years later his shoulder is still screwed.
Of course people in the US avoid going if at all possible, it's horrendously expensive, and medical bills are the number one cause for bankruptcy in the US [1]
In a stack of OECD countries (all the other ones?) nobody has ever gone bankrupt from medical bills, because that's impossible.
He couldn't afford to go to hospital, so never did. I was visiting from Australia at the time and was utterly horrified, having no idea the US worked like that. Now years later his shoulder is still screwed.
Of course people in the US avoid going if at all possible, it's horrendously expensive, and medical bills are the number one cause for bankruptcy in the US [1]
In a stack of OECD countries (all the other ones?) nobody has ever gone bankrupt from medical bills, because that's impossible.
[1] https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-415...