Reply To: Hospital Wait Times

@ anonymous The elderly and homeless often have conditions that justify admitting them, because they are elderly and homeless. Even if it takes days to either discharge or find placement, they will be in a safe, warm place with three meals a day. And if you live alone or on the streets, 14 hours in the ER isn’t that much of an inconvenience.
Yes, emergency rooms are more expensive for the hospital. But since Obama care, practitioners are cutting back on the services they offer and referring patients to the ER. Urgent care is an effort to eleviate the problem, but not a solution.
Regardless, point of the original post is that hospital wait times reflect complex problems that don’t have easy solutions.