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People with mild discomfort (e.g. a persistent cough) fill up most of the emergency rooms where I'm from, since the hospital is free. Unfortunately what this means is if you have a non life threatening problem, you have to wait in the same room as people with colds and flues that should be in bed waiting it out and eating soup.
to be fair, if you have a bad case of the flues you should be in the ER.
A bad case, yes.
Here in the states, people fill up the ER not because its free... its because they legally cant turn you away without looking at you first...
The UK's dental care is also not really covered by the NHS beyond a few emergency procedures, and even when it is (assuming you can get onto an NHS dentist's register) it costs a significant amount of money (70+ for checkup and dental work) once you turn 18, so I can imagine that most people just don't bother.
I've already resigned myself to getting most of my teeth removed or replaced, as painful as that is, because I spent years without dentist cover thanks to COVID and generally refusing to spend the costs on checkups (as bad an idea that was)
I've got to be like that after being almost killed by doctors in my first years. Unless it's something urgent or cosmetic, I struggle to trust them. I feel like it'd be the same even if I move to a better country.