Sunday, May 16, 2010

Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms

More of that hopey changey thing:

Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms - TheHill.com: "The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities.

A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms by mandating that people either have insurance coverage. The idea was that if people have insurance, they will go to a doctor rather than putting off care until they faced an emergency.

People who build hospitals, however, say newly insured people will still go to emergency rooms for primary care because they don’t have a doctor."

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