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Interesting brief history of US health care system
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Dakota-
You need to look beyond the broad statistics.

I would expect that a lot of the "ER" overload is caused by:
1- The lack of General Practitioners.
2- a lack of GP's that are willing to accept Medicaire/ Aide patients.
3- A lack of doctors that are available outside of 'normal' business hours.

A new hospital was finished last year in my area. And I've taken my family members to that ER twice now. It' set up as a triaged facility, with the low end being essentially an 'urgent care' center, then a low level ER, then a low level trauma center. (there's only one Level I trauma center in the area. I know. I got helicoptered in there. Of course I was in a coma at the time.)

Clever facility design can be used to resolve this 'misuse' of ER resources.
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#12
The problem is "emergency" means different thing to different people. I have decided many tiems against going there because I know I will have to deal with a flood of paper work afterwards. Nobody wants to pay.
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Dakota wrote:
The problem is "emergency" means different thing to different people. I have decided many tiems against going there because I know I will have to deal with a flood of paper work afterwards. Nobody wants to pay.

Then it wasn't an emergency.
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