American healthcare

Just a short note -- -but I promise to be better about posting soon. So, I hear that people self ration trips to the doctor and what not in America because of the woeful state of health coverage, but get your mind around this conversation from the back seat of my car this evening. Sam's friend was talking about a recent visit to his dad in Idaho and he says "well, my dad looks kind of weird at the moment cuz of the ATV accident and he had to have all these stitches in his face and then when he was taking them out he didn't do it right so in some places he has little black threads sticking out of his face." I said "Why didn't the doctor take the out?" He replies, "Oh, we always take out our own stitches so we don't have to make another trip to the doctor; usually my dad is really good at it."