I don't go anywhere without my health insurance card.
No, they aren't legally allowed to refuse minimum life-sustaining care, but they can delay more expensive procedures that might make a big difference, and they might send you to a charity care hospital which could potentially be farther away and much busier than a closer private hospital.
It depends on where you live I suppose. I've seen too much of the health care system from the inside, in my work.
You should be able to get extra copies of your insurance card if you need them. If it's paper, Scotch tape on both sides works as well as any lamination. I scotch-taped my organ donor card in 1981 ... and that's another thing I never leave home without.
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