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Man you really don't know how the medical system works at all. Please stop giving out this wrong information to anyone.
Urgent care here requires insurance. There is no medical center here, so I can't speak for those. The fact that there isn't one here, however, suggests that they are not a good solution. The ER does not require insurance anywhere. Poor people here who have no insurance go to the ER. All the time. I've been in the ER three times this year so far (I do have insurance) and there are always people there who have no insurance who need to be seen for something medically that could have been taken care at the urgent care who won't see them.
Furthermore, there should, in fact, be universal healthcare.
So what did I get wrong?
I have never heard of any medical practice that would not see patients without insurance. I have been to several of them with no insurance personally.
Here is a link that proves you are wrong:
https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/why-choose-us/walk-in-clinic-cost-no-insurance
EDIT: See also - https://www.healthcare.gov/community-health-centers/
Guess what also isn't offered here? A walk-in clinic at CVS.
So I'm not sure how that proves me wrong.
Here's another link for you, but you probably just want to argue by splitting hairs or something so good luck with your ER bills.
https://www.healthcare.gov/community-health-centers/
CVS's link was simply an example, you should have several options in any city for a walk-in clinic if you look around. The community health center thing is nationwide and government funded.
Yeah... about those community health centers... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-12/as-millions-face-loss-of-medicaid-community-health-centers-strained
And, of course, you better hope you're healthy enough to walk or take the bus to one if you can't drive or have someone drive you. And you better hope work lets you off. Because being sick in America if you're poor is very expensive for many reasons.
As someone who has spent a shit ton of time at many different medical facilities and, during that time, spent some of it completely poor, I can confidently assure you that you are the one who's incorrect.
An emergency room can't turn somebody away just because they can't pay. Other facilities can and do. This results in people without health insurance going to the emergency department for every little need.
Ehhh he's fairly spot on. When I didn't have insurance I had to go to the ER or try to find a doc that would write a prescription "under the table" - which never went well. No urgent care would see me.
Now that I have insurance I've only been to the ER for a real emergency once.
Still going to the ER with insurance wiped out my savings though, so I don't really see all that much difference.
Well it sounds like y'all are living in terrible places and you should move.
I live in one of the poorest parts of the USA, and have spent decades in poverty myself. During my terms in poverty I usually had no health insurance also, and I got all the medical care I needed by going to normal doctors, none of which ever turned me away for not having insurance.
So I have literally never encountered any medical facility that turns away patients for not having insurance. That would amount to a criminal action IMO and should be cause for a complaint to the state's medical board should you encounter that again.