ER Patients Are Waiting 24 Hours for a Bed. Hospitals Still Bill Them as Inpatients.

Boarding has tripled. The hallway is the new ward. And the billing department hasn't missed a beat.

THE STATE OF HEALTHCARE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (The Daily Whatever Press) — If you’re sick enough to be admitted to an American hospital right now, congratulations: you’ve earned a gurney under a fluorescent light next to the vending machine, possibly for a full fucking day or longer.

That’s the takeaway from Peter Loftus’s Wall Street Journal rep…