Obamacare written to deceive the public.

[Surgenator]

Please point out how "Obamacare is a disaster." I see it as a success.

P.S. Just because a law can be better does NOT mean it is a disaster.

More patients flocking to Emergency rooms for primary care treatment because of Obamacare.

The spike in emergency room patients is only temporary. People who recently got insurance and had lots of health problems flooded in. As you look at longer time frame, there is a noticible drop in emergency room patients.

Researchers found that patients who hadn't had medical care or any kind of health coverage before enrolling visited the emergency room at a rate of 600 visits per 1,000 enrollees in the first three months after becoming insured. By contrast, those who were already receiving care or had coverage — and therefore presumably had fewer unaddressed health concerns before enrolling — visited the emergency room at a rate in the low hundreds.

However, the study found the high usage dropped to 424 by the second quarter and 254 by the end of the first year, and then leveled off to a rate of 183 per 1,000 enrollees by the end of the second year. Kominski said these findings should be encouraging for states seeking to expand their Medicaid programs because they prove that fears are "completely unfounded" that the programs will bankrupt the state.

Source