People who can’t afford the cost or just don’t want to pay the exorbitant cost will avoid going, even if it means their lives.

Having chest pain? What if it’s just indigestion, you don’t want to go to the ER and have a $5000 bill. Oops, it was a heart attack and you’re dead. This is an actual discussion I had with one of my parents. Luckily, in that case it wasn’t a heart attack, but this is the patient-hostile system we’re working with.

The thing I always say is that when you allow health organizations and insurance companies to be for-profit, profit is going to be prioritized over health.

No, but they can still let you die after they stabilized you.