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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3561)	1/3/2008 11:44:49 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It is bad law because there are now urgent-care centers to handle these minor medical conditions. I haven't read the law, myself, but, if emergency rooms really can't legally route skinned knees to urgent-care centers, that law should be amended as I suggested. Short of that, emergency rooms could discourage non-emergency use by sequencing patients such that it's not worth the, say, minimum 12 hours it takes to get one's skinned knee treated.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3561)	1/3/2008 12:05:16 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Don't doctors refer after hour patients to emergency rooms... even for routine stuff.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3561)	1/3/2008 12:13:20 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I remember reading in the Wall Street Journal a front page article about for profit LA hospitals refusing to accept patients and sending the ambulance to the county hospital instead. That was only ten or fifteen years ago. "there are now urgent-care centers to handle these minor medical conditions." I am a good patient for the Doc In The Box as I refer to them. Some are excellent doctors that wanted to practice sooner rather than go through lengthy additional training and residency.