What a great find!!!!! I am passing this around the web. I encourage everyone else to do the same!
So true! They tend to use it as regular people would a doctor visit. Unfortunately, some also use 911 as their taxi service to the ER too. My nephew worked an ambulance here in St. Louis and he said the abuse is horrible.
If you are on Medicaid/MediCal and wake up with a sore throat, sore back, sore hip or a sore toe, you don’t need to make an appointment just show up in your local ER.
That will give you something to do for most of the day and the small herd that brings you to the hospital ER.
Apparently, ER visits don’t count towards your monthly office visit limits.
This overload of non ER freebee patients in the ERs can sometimes mean long waits for paying patients with real emergencies. The ER staffs often are afraid to keep MediCaid patients and their clan/support group waiting too long. Often they will see them and get them out of the ER faster than those with real ER problems.