[ProudFossil]

Something wrong here, urgent care facilities in ABQ definitely do accept walk-in patients: https://www.phs.org/locations/Pages/urgent-care.aspx

Thank you for the specific response about Albuquerque

I went to your suggested url about the urgent care facilities. They ALL have regular business hours and request that you make an appointment to visit them. THEY ARE NO LONGER URGENT CARE FACILITIES BUT JUST A BRANCH OF PHS IN MY OPINION.

I just called two of the PHS urgent care centers here in Albuquerque. They are closed because it is past their normal business hours. They would be happy to take a payment using their auto pay system however. It is now 6:40 pm here in Albuquerque.

So apparently obamacare has struck in New Mexico.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

At least a few years back, the Urgent Care Center (this is different from the ER) at Northside Presbyterian Hospital was open 24x365. A quick Google indicates that this is still the case.

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So apparently obamacare has struck in New Mexico.

FWIW, Obamacare (ACA) has plenty of problems, but it has increased availability of "urgent care centers", as it has increased their insured customer base.

This is one reason why congressional Republicans are now leaning toward immediate "repeal" with a several year long delay in the actual cutoff and slow-walking replacement in the meantime while they work out an alternative: an immediate cut-off would likely result in the closing of a significant number of hospitals and urgent care centers, and poor and rural areas would be the hardest hit. (If you want to keep them open, they have to be subsidized either directly or via subsidising individual insurance premiums.)

And it's not practical to just let then close, in many rural areas there are no nearby alternatives.

[lastchance]

That is only for the urgent care clinic associated with Presbyterian Health Services (PHS) I think that is what PHS stands for.