Math

Post #306,600 by drook 4/2/09 2:10:04 PM Reply	Math That's more than 49 trips per person per year. I'm betting the top two or three of them averaged twice a week. It's also more than $1,100 per visit. Really? I know the ER costs more than a regular office visit, but what the hell are they doing to/for these people that costs more than a grand each time? -- Drew
Post #306,601 by Andrew Grygus 4/2/09 2:15:13 PM 4/2/09 2:18:32 PM Reply	Well, if they can put a guy on a bed . . . . . hook him up to an automatic monitor and wait for him to die at $36,000 per day (which is what happened to my brother), they can certainly claim $1,100 for a visit to ER. Our health care system makes our financial and mortgage system look relatively sane. Edited by Andrew Grygus April 2, 2009, 02:18:32 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #306,763 by mhuber 4/4/09 9:18:49 AM Reply	Bdefore reading the article I did the math, and thought: the worst 9 asthma cases. A bad asthma case can send you to the ER on a pretty regular basis. A bad attack is a genuine life-threatening emergency, no matter how often it happens. Crappy clock-punching primary care physician and an HMO that makes it hard to switch or a patient with authority issues (my grandma would NEVER question to word of a doctor) and there your are, with the patient just doing as he or she is told and using the ER as it was intended. But 8 of them were mental health issues, so now we get to blame the loonies for not making good decisions about their health care. Yeah, that makes sense...

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