so, Ive been thinking about this. I never go to the hospital, only time I go is if cut is deep enough or long enough for stitches....and you, yourself can tell. If you see bone, or its longer and 2.5 inches, yeah stiches. S
Other than that, if I get the flue or cold, or sore throat, I eat lots of chicken soup or beef stew and SLEEP a lot. Thats it. When you know your getting better is that fever feeling, then next day or two its over.
I figure if I exempt out try to avoid penalty, at worst pay it...then the only thing I have to worry about is catostrophic event, like car accident....ok
Car accident or similar event= majority of the time broken ribs from steering wheel, all most all the bones you break except for compound fractures , are splinted thats it, and some pain killers.
Soooo, I can friggin splint myself, and drink some alchohol.
hands,fingers, clavicle, ribs, legs , arms, etc. They only splint them anyways.
So the only thing I need to do , is make sure I know how to splint, get something for pain, and learn how to suture, and buy an old army suture kit off ebay.

And , if you know the one thing that you cannot get help from, catastrophic hospitalization, if you exempted, then start living life more careful, and healthy.

And COWBOY UP!!

sure there is a small percentage of people who should have insurance, those people get hit with legit ailments all the time. But in 50 years, I can count the times I went to hospital on one hand.

Suturing myself is gonna be hard at first, but everyone is getting piercing now, how hard can it be.