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Offline The Cynic

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Re: Canadian healthcare
« Reply #45 on: October 09, 2021, 05:17:50 pm »
If it’s something that can be treated at a walk-in clinic, then you’re an idiot for going to ER and clogging it up with non-emergency issues.  Whomever is doing that is part of the problem and why it takes so long at the ER.

I doubt the accuracy of that. There's no logical reason why it should be more expensive for a doctor to treat you in a clinic vs a hospital ER. They say it costs more because they include the cost of things like X-rats and blood tests which clinics send you elsewhere for. And because they're averaging in the cost of treating trauma patients and heart attacks and strokes with your runny nose. If we just had more doctors and nurses in the ER they could treat minor cases just as efficiently without forcing more serious cases to wait.

And clinics are usually closed in the evenings, overnight, and on weekends and holidays.