If few have money to pay for healthcare, doctors will___
Charge remaining customers 5 time normal rates?
Pout and stop practicing?
Adapt and take food, guns, ammo in trade for health care?
I’d hate to be a lawyer seeking health care in a post SHTF scenario.
Who will make the supplies? There are fixed costs than can only be lowered so much.
A doc may take chickens to set a bone, but Merck won’t to sell you the drug you need to keep alive.
The doctor in my home town growing up would treat you no matter if you could pay or not. But he didn’t control the drug supply.