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jeff47

(26,549 posts)

7. The ER will only "take everyone" who is in immediate danger of dying.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 10:29 AM

Oct 2013

If you're not in immediate danger of dying, they won't take you. And your friend is not currently in immediate danger.

But have no fear, that problem may fix itself soon.

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Uninsured friend on FB had to go to ER, was rejected for a needed colonoscopy. [View all] HughBeaumont Oct 2013 OP

The ER will "take" everyone, but there are some procedures that are NOT SoCalDem Oct 2013 #1

I think he knows this, and there are people that can help him out . . . HughBeaumont Oct 2013 #8

Must be the problem with for profit hospitals. pangaia Oct 2013 #2

Sadly if he made it past the intake Nurse he will still get a bill Heather MC Oct 2013 #3

Emergency rooms are not a substitute for health insurance Gothmog Oct 2013 #4

Emergency rooms are only required to stabilize a patient, SheilaT Oct 2013 #5

He was advised to sign up for it. HughBeaumont Oct 2013 #9

I'm glad to hear he was given the right kind of advice and information SheilaT Oct 2013 #13

Putting the interests of profit ahead of patients is the root of the problem. Octafish Oct 2013 #6

The ER will only "take everyone" who is in immediate danger of dying. jeff47 Oct 2013 #7

Yet he falls into the medium of "a condition you cannot exactly sleep away". HughBeaumont Oct 2013 #10

Depending on the state - but it might have a program treestar Oct 2013 #11

That wouldn't be considered an emergency Spirochete Oct 2013 #12