Your statements about America and treatment are innacurate. It would not cost you $2000 to have some doctor stick a tool in it and wiggle it around. As I stated in my previous statement that apparently got flagged, you would have been treated in an ER and if you couldn’t pay, the taxpayers would have.
For now, according to my ER doc brother in law and my father in law, who is a doctor, you can have it checked out for about $60 bucks for a doctor visit and maybe a prescription for pain if there is any. Since you did not get it stiched up, they probably would not do it now unless you wanted it.Yes they would charge, that is how they make a living. Most people charge for their work. However, they would not stick an instrument in your finger and wiggle it around. There is probably not much they could do about nerve damage.Again, this is according to some doctors.
As for health care here in America, had you gone to Canada, you would still be waiting for treatment and if it required a specialist, plan on a two year plus wait for that. Again, according to friends of mine who have lived in that system and moved to the US so they could get a neurosurgeon to treat their daughter because after a two year wait in Canada, they decided it was worth whatever it cost to get her treated. And she would have died waiting under the free system in Canada, according to the specialists they got to see here, but yes, they had to wait two weeks to get in here under our system, but their daughter is alive and well now.