No. In Canada, they just take you into surgery and treat you. Then you leave without a bill.
Contrast that to the US which could leave a person bankrupt for the same emergency.
Contrast that to the US which could leave a person bankrupt for the same emergency.
Indeed. Even if you have good insurance, getting something like a heart attack, cancer, etc. in the US makes it likely that you'll be bankrupt in the end. I know three people that this has happened to.