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No one is withheld life-saving treatment. The difference is being able to afford regular check-ups, preventative care, or optional, non-necessary medical attention (like laser-optic surgery).
In America, once a person loses the ability to pay out-of-pocket, he/she goes on Medicare & SSDI.
Irrelevant to my point.
That's a chickenshit argument. You can't make a claim then expect others to refute it for you, especially on the GB. If you want people to accept it you have to support it yourself.
Anyway, how do you define health care access?
It's illegal for US hospitals who participate in Medicare (which is most of them) to deny emergency care to anyone on the basis of ability (or lack thereof) to pay.
so how do you guys explain the mortality rates for poorer people being higher than for richer people?
and seriously, giving someone a bit of triage in ER is not the same as a course of treatment for cancer or for needing serious and long term drug treatments.