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The real villain is the US healthcare system.
Exactly, any normal country doesn't have patients avoiding the hospital till the bitter end
If anything they specifically avoided the payment issue most of the time. Having a team of 5 specialists just working on a diagnosis for one patient at a time is extremely expensive and most people (even those with some kind of insurance) wouldn't be able to afford this. If anything they glossed over this entirely on the show.
It’s canon that House never handed in any paperwork. So maybe the patients never got charged?
There’s also the explanation that House occasionally saves wealthy people who then donate large sums to the hospital. That might offset the less affluent people.
Citation needed. Especially men avoid getting medical care even when free. At least from my European experience
Can confirm. European health care systems may be flawed in many ways, but I have personally known people who avoided getting their treatable illnesses treated.
Though if you have the kind of issue where you'd consider taking the risk of a Dr House-intervention, you're fucked in Europe, too - IME, at least here in Germany doctors absolutely hate investigating the more complicated cases.
Women as well, I had a relative die of (maybe curable) breast cancer, who had avoided screenings because she was scared they'd turn out positive. Yeah. To be honest, I am not much better, I should get some check-ups done.