[DoodleBuggy]

Putting aside the often absurd costs for a moment...

Many ERs are also severely overburdened, understaffed, and overcrowded often with very high ratios of non-emergency patients to emergency patients. This creates huge wait times for patients and puts significant stress on medical staff.

Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, almost everyone has a bad story to share, whether about absurd wait times, wild costs, billing screw-ups, insurance debacles...

And talk to your doctors and nurses too, they are just as frustrated.

[dsr_]

They're overcrowded because they are the only health care available for a large number of people.

There's only one way forward which will work, although there are lots of different ways to do it: universal healthcare.

[gbacon]

Invigorating the malady is not the cure.

[MrFantastic]

I never hear the Healthcare Insurance companies complaining. I guess they are too busy skimming off the top and weighing their profits.