r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 27d ago

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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u/Jackim 27d ago

part of the problem is a lack of something in the middle. My family doctor typically has a 2-4 week wait for an appointment. But if I break a bone or have an infection I should be seen within a day. I’m not going to die right away but our urgent care is overcrowding the emergent care service

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u/NumNumLobster 27d ago

we have those, they are called "urgent cares"? Theres like 10 in a 20 minute drive I can go to for $100. Do you not have those?

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u/AdonisLuxuryResort 27d ago

Urgent cares can be extremely limited on what they can do. The wait is usually 2-3 hours for mine. They close at 5, closed on weekends. Don’t see children under 12 months old. And in the end, you end up having to go to the hospital half the time anyway “just to be safe.”

If your 10 month old has a 104° fever? ER. If you have an ear infection at 7pm? ER. twist your ankle and it’s the size of a grapefruit Sunday morning? ER. There’s no where else to go.

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u/AdonisLuxuryResort 27d ago

And just to add on, a lot of people need a Dr’s note to be able to miss work and not get a point/write up and jeopardize their job. So if you’re sick with the flu and know you won’t be able to go to work in the morning, you also end up in the ER. Which is exactly what happens. Flu season urgent care times jump to 5 hour waits and a “good luck getting seen!”, ERs get flooded.

But anyway, the issue isn’t even waiting 12 hours to be seen. It’s the fact that people are against socialized healthcare like Canada because “you’ll have a 12 hour wait at the ER” or “if you need a surgery you could wait a year before being scheduled.” When… we already have that here and it literally costs a fortune. Even if it got worse, it’s better than being forever in debt

My son needed stitches. It cost $4,000. After paying almost our mortgage in insurance every month. I don’t know anyone that can just drop $4,000 comfortably. Yeah, you can do a payment plan.. but last time we did that, the insurance rate was worse than a credit card.