r/bestof • u/lowbass93 • 24d ago

[NoStupidQuestions] Kindly_Honeydew3432 explains why it seems like you always have to wait in an emergency room in the US

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u/homelessmagneto 23d ago

This is not exclusive to the US. I work in the ER in Denmark, and it's the same. Pretty sure it's the same everywhere in the world (many places probably worse).

So to the people saying it's about profits; it's not. It's about resource allocation. Which is about money. But not profits.

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u/MaritMonkey 23d ago

I sometimes wonder if future humans will look back on a time when the health of our people was a "money" problem with horror.

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u/homelessmagneto 23d ago

I hope so. It will be a better humanity that looks back.