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Posted: **Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:15 pm**

NBC covered this story tonight. This is what we have now and also what we are building.

When Ginger Pine's daughter started coughing and running a fever one night last December, she tried to take her to their usual after-hours doctor's office, but there was a line out the door.

Pine and her husband kept driving until they came upon a facility called PrimeCare Emergency Center. "There was nobody in the waiting room, so we went ahead and went in."

Pine's daughter Myra, then 3, was given an antibiotic shot and a prescription for oral antibiotics and sent home. It wasn't until Ginger Pine saw the bill that she realized she hadn't taken her daughter to a new urgent care in the neighborhood, but to what's called a freestanding emergency room.

Watch Stephanie Gosk on Nightly News with Lester Holt at 6:30 p.m. for more.

The bill? $2,697. After insurance chipped in, Pine was still left on the hook for almost $1,700.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ca ... ot-n750906

Posted: **Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:16 pm**

From the White House to City Hall, the corporations are in command.
They can charge you $6K for an emergency room visit, they can dump poison into your water, and they can literally drag you off an airplane even if you have a ticket. All this and much, much more.
It won't change until folks rise up against the GOP and the corporate Dems.

Posted: **Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:47 am**

http://www.governing.com/topics/health- ... rooms.html

The so called emergency room to be built in Lakewood is an urgent care with emergency room prices.

Buyer beware.

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