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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15853)	3/31/2010 7:05:50 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Read much? No...not me. But it's structural change. It's horseshit...the two signature proposals of the conservative opposition would leave millions still w/o coverage and reliant on emergency room care and account for what? 1-2% of the total care bill? Or you could look at is us not having what we should because liberals proposed what we have. Liberals would have us in single payer my friend, if not for republican filibusters and a couple of conservative democrats. Al

To: Lane3 who wrote (15853)	3/31/2010 9:05:11 PM
From: Sdgla	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Uninsured ER Fallacy By Robin Hanson · March 16, 2010 9:20 am · Discuss · « Prev · Next » Robert Samuelson: The uninsured, it’s said, use emergency rooms for primary care. That’s expensive and ineffective. Once they’re insured, they’ll have regular doctors. Care will improve; costs will decline. Everyone wins. Great argument. Unfortunately, it’s untrue. A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the insured accounted for 83 percent of emergency-room visits, reflecting their share of the population. After Massachusetts adopted universal insurance, emergency-room use remained higher than the national average, an Urban Institute study found. More than two-fifths of visits represented non-emergencies. Of those, a majority of adult respondents to a survey said it was “more convenient” to go to the emergency room or they couldn’t “get [a doctor's] appointment as soon as needed.” … Medicare’s introduction in 1966 produced no reduction in mortality; some studies of extensions of Medicaid for children didn’t find gains. HT Tim Starr. ShareThis Tagged as: Medicine Trackback URL: