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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (833514)	1/31/2015 6:52:39 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577019

Al, all you did was mention how the uninsured take advantage of public services like "free ER care." But in states where state-sponsored health care was set up, ER visits increased, not decreased. It depends on whose view you take. Personally I find all of these "studies", taken mere months after the implementation of the law, premature and inconclusive. It will take years for habits to reform and for the true effect of the law to alter patterns that have taken years to become established.. cbsnews.com content.healthaffairs.org The answer is that we all pay for it. Whether insured or uninsured, the notion of "ER care" being a negative consequence of not having universal health care is a myth. Again, statistically insignificant either way, up or down. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (833514)	1/31/2015 6:22:38 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1577019

Who's paying for the increase in ER visits? The newly insured? Not entirely, since most of them are relying on government subsidies. (Otherwise they would have not signed up for insurance in the first place.) ER visits don't only come from the uninsured......Physicians today typically only work an 8 hour day, and don't work weekends.....so if you want to see a private physician cause your sick you better get sick during the work day other wise it's a trip to a walk-in clinic or the ER.... As a result of medical group mergers in my county we now have one group that has 96 primary physicians, and literally every specialty has 12-15 docs....but they all work bankers hours... This chart is very revealing...:: usnews.com