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If your child's leg is broken at a soccer game after close of business, it is not a "true emergency" because she is not going to die. But you are not going to l
by superuser2 13y ago
If your child's leg is broken at a soccer game after close of business, it is not a "true emergency" because she is not going to die. But you are not going to leave her in the most significant pain she has ever experienced with a bone poking out through her skin until the urgent care clinic opens tomorrow morning.
How long she should suffer before getting treatment definitely doesn't have anything to do with your disposable income. Some people might agree with you that poor adults deserve whatever the market gives them (I won't) but how are you going to hold people's kids responsible for having parents who are too price-sensitive to get them timely medical treatment?
- spikels 13y agoA bone fracture that breaks the skin, known as an open or compound fracture, is a true emergency. You should go to the emergency room immediately. If you delay significantly you will almost certainly get an infection and risk the loss of limb or life. I know this is a straw man for your argument but try and make it somewhat realistic. And no need to appeal to emotion by making it about a child.
- superuser2 13y agoThere is a reasonable argument that an adult ought to be able to deal with the pain, also an argument that adults are responsible for their own financial predicaments. I chose a child because I didn't want to go down those routes. Also because every ER visit I've been involved with has been a children's sports issue.