Some people just refuse to go to the hospital.
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For many, such as in the US, are struggling so hard that, in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, their long term health isn't as pressing of an issue compared to others.
Paying to be told why your health is bad and needing to take on the financial burden of continued medical care to rectify anything wrong is not as pressing of a worry as, say, being able to make rent payments or making sure you have food in the fridge to last.
There are also the psychological trauma effects of poverty that twist people's ability to logic through a situation. Poverty is stressful; the brain begins to prioritize short-term release of this stress to protect itself from mental harm even to the detriment of other needs cause our fleshy meat computer isn't perfect and prone to errors of logical reasoning.