Like imagine you suffer injuries in an armed robbery, or from a hurricane or other severe climactic event. Do the hospitals still expect you to pay money even in those cases? I imagine it also applies to police brutality.
I ask because an acquaintance got a broken leg from being ran over by police in a protest recently and, naturally, everybody just called an ambulance and they got to the hospital and that was that, because free healthcare here is a universal right (even if severely underfunded). But then with the recent protests in the US I realised even getting a broken finger from being handcuffed could actually cost people real money.
No. I had a dental emergency where I had an infection burrowing through from the top of my jawbone to the bottom of my jawbone like a little tunnel. I used every measure of financial aid with insurance and still ended up owing over a grand. Impacted wisdom tooth that turned bad.