An example of deep level ignorance...

Do you have any idea how much emergency room medical care costs? Go to any large hospital and look at the emergency waiting room, you will see dozens of people without healthcare having colds, flu, fevers, and chills being checked out. The state picks up the cost of this at rates that are ludicrous. That cold ends up costing us thousands or more, the cost in an urgent care walk in clinic would be under a hundred dollars. A hundred people can be seen for the cost of one in an emergency room.

Every time the idea of a clinic setting versus the emergency room comes up hospitals say it would destroy the hospital system because they have come to depend on the revenues generated in that setting.