[Yokuutsu]

No, here, if you're really sick, you make a doctor's appointment and hope you don't die.

For multiple reasons. One: ER Costs. Two: Our ER sucks. Three: Usually it's nothing to go to the ER for.

And there are no walk in clinics here.

Also, when people have a pay set by the government (due to free healthcare) some people who would be in the medical profession won't unless the schooling to become one is also provided by the government (which it isn't in America).

And actually the wait does have to do with free healthcare. I'll compare myself to my cousin. She was having a panic attack, but has medicare/caid so one free visit a day unless they find something wrong on the second visit or some weird crap....so she went to the ER. She didn't listen and had another panic attack and went again. Me? I would've stayed at home and tried to calm down, just like I did when I had chest pains bad enough I couldn't breathe almost. She had free healthcare, so why wouldn't she go for any problem? Whereas me, I don't and I'm not the one who's going to be paying the bill. If I had had free healthcare, you better believe I would have went to the ER right then because there was no question if I could afford it or not. I use this example because both of us thought something was seriously wrong in both situations.

Like right now, I would go to the doctor, except it costs. Money I don't have. So it isn't worth it. And my doctor, half the time, is a complete idiot. But that's not the reason I wouldn't go.