Autumn Daniels went to the hospital with a severe migraine. After four hours in the waiting room, she left to try a different facility — but the ER still charged her.
ER triage is driven by risk of death or serious harm, not by level of suffering
In a system of free healthcare services, I would expect patients with more severe outcomes to be treated first…
Hell if they were kind enough not to bill for the privilege of sitting in a waiting room for hours of suffering, then I might also accept that…
But in a system where I’m being billed hundreds of dollars just for the privilege of being triaged and sitting in your waiting room, you can kindly fuck off with that prioritisation bullshit and get to work on the people who came in first.
In a system of free healthcare services, I would expect patients with more severe outcomes to be treated first…
Hell if they were kind enough not to bill for the privilege of sitting in a waiting room for hours of suffering, then I might also accept that…
But in a system where I’m being billed hundreds of dollars just for the privilege of being triaged and sitting in your waiting room, you can kindly fuck off with that prioritisation bullshit and get to work on the people who came in first.