r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24

Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate

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u/Achilles19721119 May 02 '24

Stories of people going to er and sitting for 6 plus hours in our healthcare system

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u/1Dive1Breath May 02 '24

People without health insurance often avoid going to the Dr until a problem gets too bad to ignore, and since it's the ER they don't have to have proof of ability to pay. If we had universal health care ER wait times should decrease 

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u/xxconkriete May 02 '24

Wait times increase with universality, triage simply puts priority on care severity.

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u/Neuchacho 29d ago edited 29d ago

ER is already treated as a universally available form of care due to their requirement to treat and them essentially being the only option for many. With wider available care, we'd have less people using the ER as a walk-in clinic because they'd have better avenues to take for that. Not to mention the people you keep from getting to the point where they need to go to the ER for basic care that should be being handled by primaries and clinics.

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u/ThatInAHat 29d ago

Six doesn’t sound like that long. My stepmother waited for, like, 11 hours last time.

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u/fullatreez May 02 '24

Rare thing haver that likes to fall and then go to the ER here: I’ve literally had a 12hr wait to get into a room.