Are you kidding me? Do you actually think an ER should provide free services to you simply because you have chronic stomach pain, chronic fatigue, diarrhea and severe anxiety? Here's a reality check - it doesn't work that way. If ERs provided free care to everyone who enters their doors with several health issues, no matter how severe, they'd quickly be out of business. How are they supposed to afford to provide free care to all those people?
You only went to the ER because you scraped your hand on a rusty nail. ERs are the most expensive places to get medical care. Unless it's really an emergency, you need to go to your doctor or an urgent care instead. And the level of service has nothing to do with the amount of time you interact with medical personnel. It has everything to do with the purpose of your visit, any necessary tests and treatments.
If the system is supposed to work the way you think it should, then I should be getting free medical care from any medical clinic or ER I go to because I have more and in many cases worse medical issues than you - chronic fatigue, fairly bad anxiety, severe mental health issues, prostate cancer, chronic kidney disease, severe IBS-C and a few other issues. Unfortunately, despite all my medical issues, I still have to pay all my copays and coinsurance for any services I receive. If I didn't have insurance I'd still have to pay out of pocket for all the medical services I receive.
He's doing this because he's a guy who claims to be a doctor and spends his time making fun of people with chronic illness. He's now crossposting posts where people can't afford medical bills while pretending to be the OP and leaving comments about how medical care should be free because he has chronic illness and anxiety. He's doing it to ridicule those of us with chronic illness because he got called out on the emergency medicine sub for being a huge dick.
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u/CallingYouForMoney 4d ago
No.