Can I ask people in the US a question. I honestly don't know the answer, and what interests me if my perception of your healthcare system is true.

Lets assume I am a US citizen, I am a very low paid worker and have no part of my income available for healthcare insurance or visits to the Doctor (I am assuming you have to pay to see a GP?).

If I had cancer, I may not know this of course, what treatment, help and support is available to me as someone who has no medical cover? And a what point would any state based help kick in?

Now my preconceptions would be that I would basically be left to die painfully unless someone would be able to scrape the money together to help me. Is this actually the case?

If it is, I find it hard to get my head around the fact that a modern society could deny any fraction of it's people the technology and knowledge to help in a situation like that.

Cheers

Cris.