2012-07-02, 12:43 PM
Untradeable Wrote:And depending on where you live, it's apparently pomegranate. You can spend hours in the ER waiting to get attention because it's so busy, people die just waiting for ER people. This is what happens when you give everyone a free pass to be idiots with their own health.
JoeTang Wrote:What are American wait times like then?
Well, I think it depends on area and population density more than something as overarching as the entirety of a nation.
Where I live, I've been to both ER, and something called Urgent Care. ER usually took me about 3-5 hours to get in (granted I could see very well that I wasn't the worst in there, nor the best though); and Urgent Care varied from 15 minutes to 3 hours (problem with this being they don't take severity into account there). Now, I'm in SoCal.
When my Grandfather was with us; over in Missouri; it took them literally 10 minutes to get to him. Extreme difference there, but also quite obviously affected by the relative populations. Not sure what the solution is other than to over-staff a facility in higher population areas "just in case". I really don't think this has to do with national policy on insurance though.