One of our local hospitals had an urgent care attached to it. You would see a triage nurse and she would put yo on the list for either the emergency room or urgent care. Worked like a charm. About a year ago I headed over to the urgent care.....it was gone. I was so sick I went ahead and signed up in the emergency room. I was so sick I couldn’t sit down and could barely stand up. When I started throwing up the security guard brought me a barf bag. After about an hour I still hadn’t seen anyone so called a friend to come get me and take me to a different urgent care. Was too sick to drive. Must’ve took her at least half an hour to get there so in over 1 1/2 hrs they hadn’t even talked to me to find out what was wrong.
While standing in the waiting room I watched people. They were all chatting, hitting the vending machines and running in and out to smoke. Maybe 3 people actually needed to be at a hospital er.
Illegal aliens use ER as primary care. And we pay for it.