I'm looking for evidence that socialized medicine does not increase "frivolous" visits.

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56. Yeah I have been there many times

Some for myself and other times with family. Of course a broken finger isn't frivolous - I guess I should have added broken bones to my list of important stuff, amongst other things. There are a lot of legit reasons to go, not all are fatal but there are a lot of conditions that need treatment ASAP, just to prevent complications or to be on the safe side, as you say with children. And not all things can be treated by your GP, such as broken bones are best treated in a hospital. You can't be walking around with a broken finger. I just mean if you go to the ER for a cold and you are otherwise a healthy person, that is what I think is frivolous. It all depends on the person and what's wrong with them.

But I bet you waited a while huh?I went to the ER twice for seizures, once with an infected abscessed tooth and once with a 104 temp when I had pneumonia (which I was forced into going, I would never have gone of my own volition for that but my parents worried it would get higher). One of the seizures was treated in London England - I was in and out, but only because the ER wasn't busy. The abscessed tooth was here in the US, in and out because they weren't busy. However, the second seizure and the pneumonia were treated here and I was there 7 or 8 hours both times. When I went with others, they all waited forever.

I wasn't the one complaining about frivolous visits, I was here to defend Britain's NHS in saying that those under a single payer system have no need to visit an ER for a cold because they have full access to their GP with no co-pay to worry about. People complain that a single payer system would cause yet more unnecessary visits to the ER, which is not true unless you have a serious doctor shortage.