(November 26, 2014 at 8:35 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
So your complaint is that we can't produce doctors in less than 4 years to accomodate the increase in patients? Thats a good thing because becoming a doctor should take longer than 4 years. Becoming an experience nurse should also take longer than 4 years.
Quote: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.
Are you suggesting that Obamacare force people into the healthcare business? Because that is the only way government can "provide" the healthcare your asking for.
Finally, having more patients does NOT constitute as a disaster.