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They will do the minimum amount of care to stabilize you and if you can't pay, send you away.
Not 200K. Not even in RMB. A broken leg will be a few hundred. But yes, if you do not have insurance you're paying.
If you can't pay for treatment you may just die. A student of mine got hit by a bus and took tremendous head trauma. The surgery for this was 30,000RMB. He was from the countryside so he and his family didn't have 30,000 RMB. He got no treatment beyond basic stabilization until his classmates and teachers gathered up a substantial portion of that 30,000. Then they saved his life.
In. That. Order.
I think you may have no clue what you're talking about vis a vis China.
Now all that being said, if you're employed at all, by anybody, anywhere, you automatically have health insurance, mandated by law. And, being state-run insurance firms, they're not the utter steaming shitpile that American "health insurance" is. But if you're not employed, or if you're self-employed, you either get insurance on your own, or you pay out of pocket. There is no universal health care.
P.S.
An AMERICAN telling a CANADIAN that she doesn't know what universal health care is is hilarious. Also, an American telling someone who's been living in China for almost a quarter of a century how China really works is even more hilarious.
What's next? Are you going to tell me what the city of Wuhan is really like?
A tankie that has no idea what they're talking about? Shocking!
It's funny. I've been called a "tankie" too for stating truths about China that are uncomfortable to its critics.
It's almost as if "tankie" is a word that has no intrinsic meaning outside of "you are someone I disagree with and I need an epithet". Pretty much the same as every other political epithet this way.
So I pretty much take anybody using the term "tankie" unironically and give them as much credence as I give anybody who uses words like "woke" or "DEI" or even "sheeple" unironically. I assume they're a) ignorant cunts, and b) assholes.