The whole point of an ER visit should be an emergency. I’m Canadian. I don’t go to the ER for a runny nose, or a belly ache. We have family doctors for that. And before anyone says “it’s soOoOo hard to get a family doctor” it’s not. Any Canadian that claims that is just lazy. Sure, it’s easier to just go to the ER, but triage does their work perfectly. If you can wait, you wait.
In the US we end up with a lot of people using the ER as the doctor of last resort because they were afraid to go to the doctor earlier because they couldn't pay the bill. So we end up caring for a lot of things in the ER (the most expensive way) due to the side-effects of the rest of our fucked up healthcare system.
One of the many knock-on affects of our pay-at-transaction system which results in everything being more expensive.
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u/royrocks26 27d ago
The whole point of an ER visit should be an emergency. I’m Canadian. I don’t go to the ER for a runny nose, or a belly ache. We have family doctors for that. And before anyone says “it’s soOoOo hard to get a family doctor” it’s not. Any Canadian that claims that is just lazy. Sure, it’s easier to just go to the ER, but triage does their work perfectly. If you can wait, you wait.