I'd like to know if there's any empiric data on how many people go to the ER for something that "wasn't really an emergency." Then I'd like to know how many pe

I'd like to know if there's any empiric data on how many people go to the ER for something that "wasn't really an emergency." Then I'd like to know how many people have died because they didn't go to the ER for something that really was an emergency. My guess would be that the latter greatly outweighs the former. And I'd follow up that guess with a wager that a large percentage of those people failed to go to the ER because they were worried about the cost. If that's the kind of decision that high-deductible health care encourages, I don't think it's worth it.