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Long wait times in ERs drive up costs, signal health care distress

  • Written by Lindsey Woodworth, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
Wait times in emergency rooms are not only frustrating but also costly.Johnson Photography LLC

Wait times in emergency rooms are so out of control that researchers recently tested whether aromatherapy would make waiting in the ER more tolerable.

It didn’t.

Over a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine offered an ominous warning:...

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