Poor, Uninsured Don't Fill Emergency Rooms -- Study
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new study on emergency rooms disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are filling them up.
In fact, more than 80 percent of patients seen in emergency rooms have health insurance and a usual source of health care such as a primary care physician, doctors reported on Tuesday.
Looks like Cartmans (one of Baa's and mine "token" republican friends) theory on inflated hospital costs has a small hole in it.....
posted by Coherent Light @ 10/19/2004 09:59:00 PM
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I would like to start off with the study was done by the university of cal san fransisco (hippies). I'm sure they didn't do anything to bias the study like just use information from targeted areas or over seasonal time periods.But hey just for fun lets go with what they got.Of course most people have insurance, because medicaid counts as insurance. We have a person whose only job is to sign people up for medicaid while they are still in the ER. Medicaid pays 8% of cost which means that most times the hospital losses money on medicaid patients. The alternitive to not accepting medicaid is to treat the same patients and not even get the 8%. Now that still leaves about 20% (with the numbers provided in this article) with no insureance at all. what other industry dosen't expect 20% of its services to be paid for? I'm sorry 20% is a large number when it is a total write off. Oh and as far as most people being having primary care doctors, that would be because most forms of medicaid assign PCPs.I wonder why this study didn't say anything about this or why it thought that 20% wasen't much..... Oh it was done by the University of Cal San Fransisco...Home of the fighting Hippies.
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