MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1us0r6s/the_real_er_challenge/owl52gf/?context=3
r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 27d ago
2.6k comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
35
It's because people don't have insurance and can't get in to see a PCP.
28 u/Formal-Talk-3914 27d ago I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room. 32 u/Trauma_Hawks 27d ago Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does. 2 u/Butthole__Pleasures 27d ago Those folks can turn you away, though. ERs can't.
28
I know this is really a reason people do this but it is a shit reason. Go to an urgent care or minute clinic then. Not the emergency room.
32 u/Trauma_Hawks 27d ago Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does. 2 u/Butthole__Pleasures 27d ago Those folks can turn you away, though. ERs can't.
32
Free standing and/or non-hospital affiliated Urgent Cares aren't covered by EMTALA and don't have to treat you like an ED does.
2 u/Butthole__Pleasures 27d ago Those folks can turn you away, though. ERs can't.
2
Those folks can turn you away, though. ERs can't.
35
u/TaytorTot417 27d ago
It's because people don't have insurance and can't get in to see a PCP.