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by naasking 2556 days ago
> Emergency room visits happen quite often enough.

Many ER visits often happen because people can't afford insurance and preventative care. If this alleviates some of that by permitting more competition due to price transparency, then it will become even more rare.

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1 out of 20 people get appendicitis. Appendicitis a lot of the time is handled at the ER, due to its sporadic and eminent nature.