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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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From: TimF	4/29/2010 2:42:00 PM
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Looking forward to those huge cost savings… Michelle Malkin referenced this quote about Gavin Newsome, who repeats a standard health care canard: Newsom argues it’s saving restaurants and taxpayers money, by offering workers preventative care. Newsom argues that this in turn keeps them out of emergency rooms, and on the clock. I was just wondering how large those emergency room savings could be – will we really save scads of dough? So I went to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), which break out Emergency Room services from other forms of care. The MEPS gives spending numbers that are roughly half the numbers that the Census Bureau quotes – I’m not sure why. Anyway, here’s what MEPS tells us about Emergency Room spending in 2007 vs. spending on all other types of care: Yeah – Emergency Room costs are about 3.3% of all medical costs. So even if we eliminated all of those costs, it wouldn’t put much of a dent in the total. Of course, despite Newsome’s fanciful thinking, it’s not likely that Emergency Room costs are going to go down at all. They’re more likely to go up. geoff82.wordpress.com

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