They use ERs as run-of-the-mill clinics, sending costs and wait times SOARING.
As patients forced to wait longer in California ERs, more are leaving against medical advice
Damn Cuba never learns.
Maybe those would-be patients should start suing the hospitals. That’ll teach them.
My guess is that this percentage increase mirrors the growth in illegals in CA.
Hey, if they have to wait long enough, they feel better! Sounds like effective medical treatment.
Government controlled healthcare is NO HEALTHCARE.
Its because they are going to the ER for stuff that is not emergent.
Instead of providing healthcare for all, that no one wants, if the states want to provide for the poor and uninsured, they would open up more free clinics for non-emergency issues.
It would cost a fraction of the “Medicare for all BS” and it would give new docs a chance to work A LOT in a busy setting in exchange for paymnent of their student debt. And people would be able to get treated by the best educated staff available.
Too many illegals.
I recall during the Obamacare debate the liars of the LA Times editorial board tried to sell it to its readers by saying even the middle class insured would benefit from Obamacare because it would make all the uninsured more healthy and hospital emergency rooms would become far less crowded. But the left is never held to account for their lies, they just pretend they never said it.
Republicans should make a video of these packed emergency rooms and produce videos against both ILLEGAL ALIENS and SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
And guess who’s paying for their ER tabs?
ER costs are just staggering. I had to take my husband for a neck issue. It turned out to be a ruptured disc; the pain in his arm was at Level 10.
I was so grateful we were *not* in SoCal anymore. We have good insurance, but, we did get the EOB. Total charges for one in network ER visit: $6000.
What many suckers don’t get is that illegals use ERs in place of primary care physicians. They are well aware of federal laws protecting them from being turned away.
The hospitals lose nothing. This is kind of a back end thing. You may be told illegals are not getting Medicaid. But, if they show up in an ER, Medicaid (or Medicare) will reimburse the hospital.
This giant scam cost us $18.5 billion in 2016.
Emergency rooms are the Free Clinic for their beloved illegals.
If you want quick service in a CA emergency room show up wearing a ICE jacket..
How is this news? This was true 20+ years ago.
You don’t go to ER in SoCal unless you can’t breathe, in cardiac arrest, or gunshot wound. For everything else, if you have $, you go to urgent care. Or you know ERs that are in difficult to access areas with less wait.
Isn’t wonderful to live in a Democrat controlled state.