lizzie
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Except to remind you both, they will still go to the ER and try to convince the admitting personnel it's an emergency. Why, because they won't have the co-pay to see their primary doctor, not to mention having to come up with the deductible. Don't pay your primary doctor, you have to go looking for another primary doctor. Don't pay the ER and you can still go back to the ER with a genuine emergency.
Our government seems incapable of thinking like a person without money.
In the hospital where I work, they have managed to cut a good bit of er abuse out, with a pretty stringent triage system. The patients are triaged, with a basic assessment and workup done, and if you don't meet emergency criteria, then you are referred to a case manager, who tells you that you must pay up front, or you won't be seen further. It seems to work fairly well from what I can tell.