[Auntie Dem]

Access to health care for poor people is readily available in virtually every county in the country at low or no cost at the local public health clinic. Most moderate-size cities also have charity clinics run by non-profits or volunteer health professionals. The ER nonsense was just a ploy to get the public to buy into the fraudulent promises of cost savings under Obamacare.

It is true there are many local and charitable clinics, but the disadvantaged are still clogging the ER's. On three separate occasions I've had to go to an ER and had to wait for all the illegals kids to have their sniffles wiped off their faces. My emergencies weren't trivial; first a heart attack, then a fall and injuries after the heart attack, and a colonoscopy gone bad. I could have died each time, and all because the disadvantaged get theirs first. Some triage.

[riverdawg]

“On three separate occasions I’ve had to go to an ER and had to wait for all the illegals kids to have their sniffles wiped off their faces.”

Then your hospital’s ER isn’t properly managed. Both ERs in my area have a triage nurse stationed at the entrance. S/he is trained in emergency medicine to quickly and accurately evaluate the nature and severity of the “emergency” and direct the patient to one of three locations. Sniffles get you set to the large, overcrowded waiting room where it may take several hours to be seen by a nurse or nurse practitioner.