thinking about you and your family. Multiply that 10 hours by the nearly 150 million ER visits that occur in the US each year.

The US's backlog issues could easily be fixed by regulation. The key is to stop primary care docs from being able to cherry pick patients based on the type of insurance they have. Because way less patients would be resorting to ER for care that could be taken care of at a nearby clinic.

Any patient should be able to go to any clinic, period. EHRs have been mandatory for years now, there's really no good excuse anymore.