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From Ace:
- Nbc/wsj Poll: Only 24% Of Uninsured Think Obamacare Is A Good Idea?????
Uninsured Americans have soured on the Affordable Care Act in the past three months – and that bodes ill for the law’s popularity and financial underpinnings. Less than a quarter—24%—of uninsured Americans think the health care law is...
- Another Obamacare Lie: Protecting Those With Pre-existing Conditions
We Get the Government We Deserve From IBD: The Affordable Care Act gets curioser and curioser. President Obama promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions and help the uninsured. Yet these vulnerable groups are getting clobbered. Congress...
- New York Doctors Sick Over Obamacare: “it’s Basically Going To Be A Race To The Bottom”
From the New York Post: New York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare — and many won’t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they’ll go broke, The Post has learned. “ObamaCare is going to send me more...
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in an email from one of my squirrelly friends Emergency Room The other day, I needed to go to the emergency room. Not wanting to sit there for all day, I purposely put on my old Army fatigues and stuck a patch onto the front of my shirt that I had purchased...
- Smallpox Scare Locks Down Florida Hospital
Officials say it was NOT Small Pox after all: HOLLYWOOD – Memorial Regional Hospital's emergency room was put under lockdown for a short time shortly after 7 Friday morning over worries a sick patient was suffering symptoms similar to smallpox,...
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Contrary to Obama's Claims, Insuring the Uninsured Via Medicaid Cause More to Go to the Emergency, Not Fewer
I Am The Mani-infestation
From Ace:
You've heard this claim sixty thousand times: The uninsured don't go to doctors before a condition worsens, so they show up at the emergency room with a condition that could have been treated much more cheaply earlier.
Or: The poor go to the emergency room because they know they can't be turned away. And thus the absolutely highest-dollar part of the hospital is overutilized, thus driving up health care costs. Which you pay for, because, in the end, the hospital isn't eating that loss.
So, Obamacare was supposed to reduce costs by weaning the uninsured off their habituation of using the emergency room as a local health clinic.
Nope. Medicaid patients use the emergency room forty percent more than the completely uninsured.
Is there a single claim about this program that wasn't a "wrong promise"?
A new study of Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon makes a strong version of this case. The study, published today in the journal Science, finds that adult Medicaid beneficiaries rely on emergency rooms about 40 percent more than similar uninsured adults.
"When you cover the uninsured, emergency room use goes up by a large magnitude," said Amy Finkelstein, a health economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who served as a lead investigator on the study, in an MIT press statement accompanying the study.
There were no exceptions to the trend. "In no case were we able to find any subpopulations, or type of conditions, for which Medicaid caused a significant decrease in emergency department use," said Finkelstein.
- Nbc/wsj Poll: Only 24% Of Uninsured Think Obamacare Is A Good Idea?????
Uninsured Americans have soured on the Affordable Care Act in the past three months – and that bodes ill for the law’s popularity and financial underpinnings. Less than a quarter—24%—of uninsured Americans think the health care law is...
- Another Obamacare Lie: Protecting Those With Pre-existing Conditions
We Get the Government We Deserve From IBD: The Affordable Care Act gets curioser and curioser. President Obama promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions and help the uninsured. Yet these vulnerable groups are getting clobbered. Congress...
- New York Doctors Sick Over Obamacare: “it’s Basically Going To Be A Race To The Bottom”
From the New York Post: New York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare — and many won’t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they’ll go broke, The Post has learned. “ObamaCare is going to send me more...
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in an email from one of my squirrelly friends Emergency Room The other day, I needed to go to the emergency room. Not wanting to sit there for all day, I purposely put on my old Army fatigues and stuck a patch onto the front of my shirt that I had purchased...
- Smallpox Scare Locks Down Florida Hospital
Officials say it was NOT Small Pox after all: HOLLYWOOD – Memorial Regional Hospital's emergency room was put under lockdown for a short time shortly after 7 Friday morning over worries a sick patient was suffering symptoms similar to smallpox,...