{"id":20743,"date":"2023-01-11T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20743"},"modified":"2023-01-11T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:04:27","slug":"the-decision-of-where-to-seek-care-is-complicated-by-the-multitude-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20743","title":{"rendered":"The Decision of Where to Seek Care Is Complicated by the Multitude of Options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sam Whitehead for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One evening in February 2017, Sarah Dudley\u2019s husband, Joseph, started to feel sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had a high fever, his head and body ached, and he seemed disoriented, she said. The Dudleys had a decision to make: go to the hospital emergency room or to an urgent care clinic near their home in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cERs take five, six, seven hours before you\u2019re seen by a doctor, depending on how many people are there,\u201d Sarah said. \u201cI know that I can go to an urgent care clinic and be seen within an hour.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/the-decision-of-where-to-seek-care-is-complicated-by-the-multitude-of-options\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/the-decision-of-where-to-seek-care-is-complicated-by-the-multitude-of-options\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sam Whitehead for Kaiser Health News) One evening in February 2017, Sarah Dudley\u2019s husband, Joseph, started to feel sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[386,219,387,385,218],"class_list":["post-20743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","tag-clinics","tag-cost-and-quality","tag-emergency-medicine","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-hospitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20744,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions\/20744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}