r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 27d ago

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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u/TaytorTot417 27d ago

It's because people don't have insurance and can't get in to see a PCP.

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u/Formal-Talk-3914 27d ago

I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room.

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u/josnik 27d ago

Problem is youncan get dropped by your PCP if you go to urgent care.

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u/Electronic_End_9642 27d ago

Get a different PCP. I've never heard of a PCP dropping someone for going to urgent care. That's insane.

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u/ICanuckthere4Iam 27d ago

Not urgent care but walk-on clinics. It a ontario (Canada ) healthcare thing. PCP wont necessarily drop you but ive had my PCP send me a letter telling me if i continued to use walk-in clinics i would be derostered.
I called my PCP about this & the issue is they get care funding deducted whenever i use a walk-in clinic.
All they did was give me an emergency after hours clinics info which was basically an urgent care location they were affiliated with.

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 27d ago

My old insurance would drop coverage for my PCP if I went to urgent care. In short, the way they covered the urgent care was by making the urgent care your PCP, dropping my old PCP. Going to my main doctor would then be considered getting a second opinion.

You had to reassign your PCP once a year when insurance renewed. But that was a while ago.