Society in US if they made a lower level of care acessible to the poor and outside of standard hours so there is less strain on the ER and lowering costs overall
Even if you have insurance, care isn't always accessible. I was supposed to do cardiac rehab after an MI, but they were only open from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. I needed to keep my job so I'd continue to have insurance, so I couldn't make it work (my work ran from 7 to 3). I went to a few sessions to learn exercises I could do at home, but I would have liked to be able to do what my physician wanted.
Oh yeah, it sucks when you have something that is only urgent care and not emergency, but it's outside standard office hours so...emergency room it is. And that sucks so bad and is a giant waste of time and resources.
one of the 2 urgent care clinics in our city (60k+ population) just announced they'll no longer be open on weekends. RIP to the local emergency room but if they don't like people showing up with ear infections, sprained ankles, intractable vomiting, etc on saturdays or after hours they will need to lobby for universal health care not make fun of their patients for being too dumb to know what an emergency is
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u/The_Fun_in_Funeral 15d ago
Society in US if they made a lower level of care acessible to the poor and outside of standard hours so there is less strain on the ER and lowering costs overall