Evidence of increased emergency room use under Obamacare

[untermensche]

I think it would be obvious that changing people's behavior is a long-term exercise. If people are used to going to the emergency room for all of their medical care, one would expect any noticeable change in that behavior to occur over longer periods of time than 2 years or less.

When you can't attack the naked truth that more people have health insurance you attack the behavior of people with that health insurance.

As you say, this is an issue of behavior that needs to be changed, not a problem inherent to the fact that more people have health insurance.

These people need to use their general practitioners more.

And ER doctors and nurses are working to train them.

These people crying about this are howling at the moon. Crying about the fact that Americans are stubborn and many times a little ignorant.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Besides, what we should be looking at is the number of ER visits that more appropriately should have been seen in a doctor's office instead.

Maybe more walk-in clinics would help.

Yes, we need more of those.