Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall?
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
There are other disincentives besides price that keep people from going to the doctor if they don’t need to
- wait times to get to the doctor
- the time spent actually getting to the doctor and being there
- social disincentives of having to explain a minor issue to a professional and probably something else that I forget now.
I used the health care services at my home town once this summer, and I spent two months there. Basic care is free at the point of service there. And I only went because I had had a concussion. Didn’t seem that the other people were there for no reason either.