[BigDawgInLakeDenham]

You are attempting to discuss relatively minor medical issues as "emergencies". Just drive your wife or husband to wherever you want her or him to go. You can pretend to know if its worth driving to Gainesville because you know best. You've even got a Chief of Staff ranting about NYC...this ain't NYC and a broken kneecap or shoulder is not an emergency. I was an Emergency Room RN for over 30 years at a major Trauma and Burn Center. If you are dying you will NOT be dictating where you will go to die....so get over your entitled selves please. Your reflux or arthritic pain is NOT an emergency and you should go see your PCP about it instead of keeping your Tee time. I guarantee you will not care what emergency room you land in when you actually have an event and we won't care if you have Medicare Supplement or Advantage.....Don't abuse the Emergency System because when you do you kill someone that actually needed it!!! For those stuck on the CMMS ratings...aka Medicare...My career was at a known hospital system in Baltimore, which is home to Medicare and Social Security, and I know Hospital Surveyors. Don't trust their ratings unless you believe all government workers are actually conscientious workers, committed to their jobs, and only thinking of your lives, like you believe they are. But that's just an insiders view and not what you'll see on CNN. Take away what you will and say what you will about me...but I will stilI know truth and laugh at your lament over where's the "best". The "best" is exactly what treatment you need at the moment...and nothing more or nothing less