here is what I know about Health Care System in USA.
1) low income/no income citizens and (NO CITIZENS) who are eligable for welfare benefits, have FREE medical care.
(single mothers unable to work, males/females who can't work for medical reasons, regardless of their citizenships.
When I just came to USA 25 years ago, I dated a few single mothers who were on welfare and them and their children had FREE medical care
2) Elders, like my father, who are unable to work and don't have Medicare,
are the part of SSI system and have FREE medical care.
3) I was unemployed and living with the girl from Dominican Republic who, when I needed to see the doctor for routine check up showed me the clinic somehow subsidised by state for low income people where doctor's visit costed me...$6.95 compared to $120 to a usual yellow pages doctor
4) Emergency care:
NO HOSPITAL MAY REFUSE YOU EMERGENCY CARE due to your lack of ability to pay,
THIS IS A FEDERAL LAW.
I would safely deduce that OVERWHELMING majority of americans and legal residents have no problems obtaining reasonably priced medical care.
and to sum it all I'll use O-ren's quote:
"Now if any of you sonsabitches got anything else to say, now's the fuckin time.
I didn't think so."
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