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Originally Posted by Keedy
Many people use the emergency rooms as their prime care physician. These clinics are certainly less expensive then ER's. Have you ever seen an ER bill for a relatively simple procedure?
I do not have many answers to the health care situation but they say that 70% of treatments-ailments could have been avoided using preventative medicine.
Maybe some courses in high school could go a long ways.
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I don't think there was an issue regarding whether these clinics would be cheaper than the E.R. Have I ever seen the the E.R. bill? Yeah, and then some. As a physician that has practiced in the E.R. setting and the inpatient hospital setting for some time now I feel fairly familiar with this. That really wasn't the thrust of my post though.
I don't know about your 70% statistic, might be pretty close though I'm not sure how that figure came about nor what all it refers to.
To reiterate, my point was not denigrate their plan, simply to shed more light and perspective on it.