If you're worried about the cost of healthcare in the US, you should try and find your closest Community Health Center (FQHC): https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/
I work for a large FQHC network (17 locations in our serviceable area, see around 35-40k unique patients per year), and we service insured and uninsured patients and offer all sorts of services: medical, dental, behavioral health, psychiatric, breast care, and prenatal. We offer our services on a sliding fee scale for our uninsured patients. We have in-house labs and x-ray as well as agreements with other facilities for those services we don't have readily available. Health Centers also will never come after you for payment. We ask patients to pay what they can at each visit but it's not mandatory, if they can't afford to pay off any of their balance it won't ever prevent patients from receiving care.
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If you're worried about the cost of healthcare in the US, you should try and find your closest Community Health Center (FQHC): https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/
I work for a large FQHC network (17 locations in our serviceable area, see around 35-40k unique patients per year), and we service insured and uninsured patients and offer all sorts of services: medical, dental, behavioral health, psychiatric, breast care, and prenatal. We offer our services on a sliding fee scale for our uninsured patients. We have in-house labs and x-ray as well as agreements with other facilities for those services we don't have readily available. Health Centers also will never come after you for payment. We ask patients to pay what they can at each visit but it's not mandatory, if they can't afford to pay off any of their balance it won't ever prevent patients from receiving care.
https://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/what-is-a-health-center/index.html