“Free” health care guarantees this sort of thing will keep on happening. If there was no such thing as free health care, if people were charged for services rendered, and only had catastrophic health insurance, then people would only go to the hospital for care when they were really sick. No one, espically someone who can’t pay, would request medical care they didn’t need if they knew they would be billed for it. Then, when people came in complaining of pain, the doctors and hospitals would take them seriously.
All excellent points.