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I'm a little confused here. The article talks about all the nonurgent patients clogging up the works but they somehow do this by requiring inpatient beds that aren't available. I'm under the impression that if you require an in-patient stay at the hospital that is kinda urgent. Nonurgent would be outpatient types served via the "treat 'em and street 'em" process, no?

We have a new hospital with a separate ER for outpatient type complaints leaving the main ER to handle the true emergencies. After all, people do get sick on the weekends. Ever try to get a doctor who is in your plan on a weekend? THEY are the ones who tell you to go to the ER.

One remedy for ER's crowded with nonpaying patients -- many illegals, is to close our borders. Hard to do, obviously. But if you take everything to its logical conclusion, millions flooding here by hook or by crook, and using medical services along with everything else, the more efficient and better our medical system becomes, the more of a magnet it is for sick people in other nations who can't get either timely or decent care. So what are we to do? Why is it our job to solve everyone else's problems? And okay, I admit I'm a closet isolationist. Why can't the rest of the world...I feel like Professor Higgins here...simply be like us?