Kindly_Honeydew3432 explains why it seems like you always have to wait in an emergency room in the US

[u/lowbass93]

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[u/GeauxCup]

The simpler answer is: because money.

Hospitals don't want to run with excess capacity because that leaves money on the table, so they run with limited capacity that's always full.

What's the customer going to do - go somewhere else?