If you get sick or injured in a significant way, you might think a local emergency room to be your only real option. However, this is not without its issues, as emergency rooms themselves can all too often be over crowded and understaffed. This is the case all throughout the country, with many emergency rooms providing less than ideal care out of the situations they have been placed in.

There are other issues with getting care in an emergency room as well. For one thing, the wait times in the typical emergency room can be immense. On average, they are likely to last at least one full hour, if not even longer than that. In addition to this, going to an emergency room is hardly likely to be inexpensive. In fact, the opposite is all too often true. In today’s world, it is not uncommon for a single emergency room visit to cost more than $1,000 – if not even drastically more, depending on the nature of the visit itself.

Of course, there are certainly times when going to the emerge