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To: bentway who wrote (502236)	8/6/2009 9:26:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

"I've been once, for a bad cut on my hand, they billed me, and I paid." I took my wife there once. She had "found" a scorpion in a bag of carrots. Well, it found her, actually. Anyway, she was freaking out, I took her, we waited for hours and got a couple of $75 Benedryl. The rest of the bill was scaled about the same.

To: bentway who wrote (502236)	8/6/2009 10:43:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

>> I don't know even ONE PERSON who has ever used an emergency room for routine care. Routine care? Emergency rooms are not for routine care. They're for emergencies. It is commonplace now for physicians to send patients to the ER when they call or present with symptoms that are better handled in the ER environment. I've never known anyone who went to an ER for routine care, either. It does happen in inner cities, which is a shame. Of course, counties where this happens could simply set up urgent care centers and cover a lot of those people. But the reality is the massive "cost" of the ER is overstated. A lot of that cost is overhead that is allocated to specific charge lines, and would merely be reallocated to another account if they didn't allocate it to these indigent patients who misuse the ER.