This is not true-anyone can walk in to any emergency room and get treatment. Give a john Doe name and address and you will never get a bill. Illegals do if millions of time every day in the USA !
Uncle Sam pays the bill so we "do" have universal health care !
This is true. I work in this field, collecting information about health care costs and payments. I see thousands of cases a year. Poor people walk into hospital ERs (either for emergency or basic medical care), get top-class diagnostic procedures, facilities, and treatments just as middle-class people do, run up a multi-thousand dollar tab, and the government--that's us, boys and girls!--pays for a good part of it; the hospital eats the rest of the costs. It's amazing. So far I have not encountered a case in which a hospital turned an indigent person away because he didn't have health insurance. I'm beginning to wonder why I bother with health insurance when apparently no one else in this country needs to do so.
And by the way, so far I have also not found any cases in which a private health insurer paid for everything it was supposed to. The hospitals are struggling with these expenses, which is part of the reason they have to charge youso much in order to pay for their new CAT scan machinery. You would also be surprised to learn how little the doctors are really getting.