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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (6368)3/13/2009 10:21:48 PM
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The University of Chicago hospital made headlines this week when it was criticized by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a plan that tries to get non-emergency patients out of its emergency room.

I didn't see the original proposition but there is only one reason a hospital doesn't open a minor medical clinic next door -- and that's money.

Hospitals are, after all, charging $500 for those ER visits (and $300 for that vial of Epi) that could be handled with a $50 office visit + $10 for the Epi in that clinic next door.

I have a number of clinics I do work for that are such minor medical facilities. Busy as hell. One doc with a nurse practitioner can see 90 patients a day, 7 days/wk, or 32,850 patient visits a year. Simple problems -- UTIs, URIs, physicals, basic labs, etc. If it is too much to handle, refer them to the ER.

A clinic like that can easily operate on a budget of a million-five a year. And even turn a profit. If they want to.
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