Why do People Clog Up the Emergency Room & Hospitals?

[Miborn]

Originally Posted by John1960

The last time I was in the ER my hospital bill was over $4,000 for only four hours. The hospital billed my insurance company 4,000 and I think I had pay 800.00 for just walking in the ER. The 4,000 was mainly tests of all kinds and blood tests. So I never go to the ER at the hospital for anything other then an emergency.


John

Wow John I wouldn't either for that price!!!

[Miborn]

I don't understand why a woman having a miscarriage would have to wait 2 hrs for a bed in a ER. But than again at the time I had no insurance.

[cremebrulee]

Originally Posted by mels

Yup, the uninsured know they can get care at the ER. The hospital can't turn them away while a regular PCP or general Practitioner in private practice can. Fix the US healthcare system and the ERs will go back to being run the way they were meant.

and this is the reason 3 hospitals in California were shut down....my aunt lived there and the hospitals were drained from people taking advantage of the ER...

[movingtohouston]

Ok for those that advocate going to urgent care centers....how much do those visits cost because my insurance won't cover an urgent care so my only choice is to go an er. Just curious.

[yhwhshalomjr]

Originally Posted by brokencrayola

Doesn't Ugent Care facilities care for things such as stitches? They are cheaper and far less of a wait than an emergency room.

In urgent care you have to pay up front, which takes us back to tile one, they
load up the ER, because some of them don't have have adequate insurance for
a Primary Care visit.
It is sad, it's scary too... esp for the person that walk in for triage, and have to wait to be filtered down to the proper care room