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frazzled

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6. I'm not understanding your comment

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 08:43 AM

Jan 2014

You have to take off just as much time from work to go to the ER as to a doctor's office (more actually--we once waited 5 1/2 hours in the ER for my husband to be seen, and it was a life-threatening situation).

The co-pay for the ER is far higher than for a doctor's visit.

The point is, people need to be trained over time that if they or a family member get sick, and it is not an emergency situation, that it is better and cheaper to go to a physician or clinic or nursing assistant. It's not more time consuming; it's not more expensive.

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