Hell. I went to the local walk-in clinic on a Friday after my vacation because of a severe pain in my side (suspected a strained intercostal but wanted to dismiss a break and get a relaxer or something for pain). But they didn't have an x-ray tech available after lunch (I would have been happy to position myself as I used to be one) so they referred me to the ER (should have been run into the Fast Track care area so it'd be cheaper and faster), and I waited three hours for a nurse practitioner to tell me, yeah, radiographs show jack, you must have pulled something, here are your relaxers. Then a month later I get hit with a thousand dollar bill. Luckily I had insurance, or it would have been a $2500 bill. WTF? Maybe I shouldn't have had insurance, and maybe I'd have gotten it for nothing like the other assholes who come in for nothing major.
My complaint is more of a factor of lack of communication, poor triaging and me hurting too much to bitch at the time than the health care system (which would be served best by ending deductible-inflating federal mandates and the Medicrap programs that screw up service reimbursement and restrict alternative treatment options, and then giving commensurate write-offs and assistance to promote actual insurance coverage...but anyway). I hope they like getting $5 a month from here on.