ER

I was always so fascinated by ER series, mostly because of Clooney. Isn’t he hot? The manly man in Hollywood? (too bad he’s too old now). In those series emergency services were truly fast.

Few days ago my friend was really bad and I had to give him a ride to the emergency room at the local hospital. We got there, I went to park and he went inside. I was sure by the time I get inside he’ll be in some back room getting professional medical help. Nope! They first need to fill out all the information on the patient. Then the patient goes to the back room to fill out more documents. This time it’s about insurance.

I guess the help you’ll get (even when it’s urgent) depends on your insurance.

There are two things that are weird for me: 1) It was not as fast as in ER series (I know, I know… Hollywood lies a lot, but everything in ER should be fast anyway); 2) You should not care if the person is insured or not in case of emergency. Otherwise that means that society values not people as social beings, but people as wallet holders.

Even if it’s like that, why don’t you come up with some system, that once you’ve identified yourself, system would be able to find information on whether you have insurance or not?