Posted on 01/03/2014 3:35:12 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Expanding health insurance coverage for the poor leads to a significant increase in costly emergency room visits, according to a new study. The finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, raises the possibility of trouble ahead as millions of people gain health insurance through expansion of Medicaid under the new health care reform law, coverage that began kicking in on Wednesday.
The 18-month study followed 25,000 low-income Oregonians who won Medicaid coverage in a lottery as part of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a major policy research initiative. Researchers observed a 40 percent increase in emergency room visits among the newly insured.
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As Gomer Pyle Used To Say:”Surprise,Surprise”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, it it’s free—they’re gonna try and use it.
That was a bad thing under Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43.
It'll suddenly become a good thing under Idi Otbama. Mark my words.
The liberal solution will be to pay people to schedule appointments with doctors and force doctors to keep their offices open longer and on weekends..
I guess I don’t completely understand this...
Suppose you are poor and get a fully subsidized plan. These plans have a pretty high deductible don’t they? Wouldn’t the poor person with the “free” plan still have to come up with the deductible before they were treated?
The way it was, they got free treatment in the emergency room... Sounds like they have to pay now. How’s that going to work out?
Somebody would have to have been smoking a lot of cheap weed, not that good $400.00 stuff they sell in Colorado, to have not seen this coming.
Heh. Yup. We've been telling them this the whole time. They're going to freak out, eh?
I posted a few months ago about my experience living without medical insurance for years. A healthy person, I did not need it. And then, who would have guessed, the month I got on medicare, about three things went wrong, requiring medical attention.
I wondered then and still do whether having insurance contributed to the number and degree of health problems. For me, it did. Am I proud of this? No, that’s not what I mean.
When I could not afford to be sick, I wasn’t. You might attribute the problems to advancing age. But really, how far did it advance in a month? Something else at work here.
Expect HUGE numbers of people to get sick, have accidents the minute obummer care kicks in. Intentionally? Maybe, maybe not. The statistics will be interesting.
“They’re going to freak out, eh?”
Except for Medicaid which is still free... However Medicaid has to be repaid when you die out of your estate if you have one.
If an emergency room is equipped to handle only 20 patients at a time and 50 patients show up, the inevitable rationing and death which are features of socialized medicine, of which ObamaCare is turning out to be a particularly painful example, will occur.
Under ObamaCare with its significant increase in Medicaid enrollees, entrances to emergency rooms will soon resemble the entrances to Nazi deathcamps, at which guards — in this case doctors — will wield the authority to make life and death decisions by directing each new arrival to the right or to the left — to either be treated immediately or to wait and suffer and inevitably die if the wait is too long.
How many innocent people will have to die before ObamaCare is repealed? How long will ObamaCare’s medical horrors have to go on before the New York Times deigns to cover them?
IF is the operative word. I know a few women in a HUD housing development who get their rent subsidized. They simply transfer all of their assets to children, then cry poverty.
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