Its agitprop but the truth is not so ridiculous. The marketing was terrible, urgent care isn't just for coughs and colds, its its pretty much for anytime you'r

Its agitprop but the truth is not so ridiculous. The marketing was terrible, urgent care isn't just for coughs and colds, its its pretty much for anytime you're not actively bleeding or can arrive in something other than an ambulance. "they’ll have to force me into an ambulance to go to the emergency room" I'm not seeing the tragedy in that, beyond the horrible marketing rollout. She would have gotten the same care a lot cheaper at urgent care. Where I live its merely a different floor of the hospital, which emphasizes the accounting tricks nature of the situation, a chest xray from urgent care is like $300 but from ER is $3000 for magic accounting reasons. There are no uninsured people in urgent care, which ironically means faster service unless you're so sick you scare the ER nurses, which means you're probably not even conscious. The problem with the ER is bifurcation of tasks. On one hand, infinite labor and capital to save trauma victims, gunshot wounds, car accidents, industrial accidents. That's gonna be expensive, but if you lost a leg in a horrible accident they can probably save your life. And on the other hand the ER is the free clinic for uninsured coughs and colds and aches and pains, so even more money needs to be dropped on triage and the inevitable legal bills when triage is messed up. A lot of problems with the system could be fixed by separating the "trauma clinic" from the "free clinic" departments. Its very expensive to have the same department handle both gunshot wounds and uninsured painkiller pill addicts.