[nickff]

Is most medical care urgent? I dislike asking for citations, but that is quite the claim!

Are you saying the majority of patient-practitioner encounters are emergency visits, or that the majority of spending is on emergency care, or something else?

[yamtaddle]

I'd expect the majority of people's encounters with big medical bills from hospitals before old age are either emergency, or childbirth related, so those are the two things you'll see young and middle-aged people complain about.

But the biggest bills are probably near end-of-life, and mostly not emergency care.