(November 26, 2014 at 8:16 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(November 26, 2014 at 7:27 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
As these newly insured get absorbed into the primary care system I think you will see the total number of emergency room visits stay at an elevated level. Why? Because there hasn't been an increase in the number of primary care providers. This means some people who previously had insurance and who have had primary care doctors....who got to see those doctors in a timely manner......now won't get in to see them when they need to see them. Consequently their number of emergency room visits will spike as the newly insured numbers fall.
The reason Obamacare is an abysmal failure is because it doesn't provide health care. All it does is redistributes the existing healthcare while giving insurance company fat-cats a big government hand out.
