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I don’t mean to be insensitive, but why would you compare emergency room visits with admission times for terminal cancer? They are, quite literally, the complet

• hotpotamus 4y ago
  In the US, public healthcare is delivered via emergency room. My friend's healthcare plan is to go to the ER and give them a fake name, which he developed after a fight that resulted in a head injury wherein he was unable to remember any details of his trip to the emergency room. He never got a bill, couldn't remember any details and wasn't sure what name he gave them, and it worked well enough that that's just what he does now. Quite a system the US has developed.
  • chrismeller 4y ago
    Oh good lord, no it is not. Yes, that is one option, and something frequently used by the homeless and some of the under-served groups in the US, but it is not even remotely the standard or how “healthcare is delivered”. This is the same argument a lot of people in Europe use when talking about how great their healthcare system is. I still don’t understand why 99% of them start with “I got in a fight”…
    • hotpotamus 4y ago
      It is literally my friend's only source of healthcare. Reading back, I should probably have said universal rather than public. It's the only thing like a universal system that we have.
• PaulHoule 4y ago
  My father-in-law had seen an oncologist through the course of his disease and when he was within a few days of death (e.g. very terminal) he was instructed to go the e-Room where he spent a long time in line before going to triage and then being admitted to hospice. So this is not the way lumpenproletariat die, this is what happens if you have good insurance and got standard care.