Saturday, May 15, 2010

When every waiting room looks like the set of "ER."

The Hill: "Health reform threatens to overwhelm already crammed emergency rooms"

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.
Good gravy, wheresoever did they get that idea?

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) suspects the fallout that occurred in Massachusetts’ emergency rooms could happen nationwide after health reform kicks in.
If only the mainstream media had reported this probable issue instead of relying on a little-read blogger who warned about this very problem in the Bay State.

Extra - From Gay Patriot.

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