Emergency Visits Seen Increasing With Health Law

Emergency Visits Seen Increasing With Health Law

New York Times -

Supporters of President Obama's health care law had predicted that expanding insurance coverage for the poor would reduce costly emergency room visits because people would go to primary care doctors instead. But a rigorous new experiment in Oregon ...http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/health/access-to-health-care-may-increase-er-visits-study-suggests.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0

Study: Expanding Medicaid doesn't reduce ER trips. It increases them.

Washington Post (blog) 

As the health-care law expands Medicaid to cover millions more Americans, a new Harvard University study finds that enrollment in public program significantly increases enrollees' use of emergency departments. The research, published Thursday in the ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/02/study-expanding-medicaid-doesnt-reduce-er-trips-it-increases-them/

Bad News for Obamacare: More Insurance Sends More Patients to Pricey ERs

Businessweek -

The fundamental shortcoming of the American health-care system is that we spend more than other developed nations, yet are less healthy. One reason for this, policy analysts have long argued, is that so many of the nation's poor, lacking health insurance, ...http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-02/bad-news-for-obamacare-more-insurance-sends-more-patients-to-pricey-ers