re: I might need an ambulance chaser

An urgent care does not provide emergency medicine and it does not fall under Emtala. They told you to go to ER. Shortness of breath is not an urgent care visit. If they would have checked you in and you saw a doc they would charge you the cash then tell you, hey we want you to go to ER. We will call you an ambulance. Then you have be on the hook for the urgent care bill also.