Urgent care is emblematic of problems in our health system

KevinMD February 23, 2020
Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Working in urgent care, I’ve started supervising some of the other providers at sites other than my own — 19 sites in all in Pennsylvania and Delaware — so I hear about a lot of patient situations.

The urgent care site where I work is in an affluent area. Most of our patients are employed or retired and have health insurance, though I have certainly encountered a number of patients who don’t. Many of these patients are young adults, just off their parents’ insurance, who are trying to manage with part-time employment or who are working within the gig economy, and cannot yet afford to buy health insurance. Some of our sites are in less monied areas, and there are...

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