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Originally Posted by Slava
But this is the crux of the healthcare issue. Say you have one of those things tonight at 7:30pm. That's far from an ungodly hour, and yet you have the ER to go to and almost nothing else. Need a CT scan, or whatever at 8pm? ER. Is it life threatening? Maybe not, but you have no options on where to go, essentially.
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Ya, I had something in my eye after hours on a Friday night. Incredibly painful, not life threatening, but no where else to go. GGG imagines I should sit around and wait until Monday to go to my optometrist, I guess? Maybe by then my cornea would be scratched to pieces and I'd be an even bigger expense on the system.
Quick access to care for many things is incredibly important at keeping treatment costs lower for issues in the future. A crowded dysfunctional ER is just costing us more money. It's failure.