Newsflash: Give people Medicaid and they go to the ED...

[drusso]

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609533?query=TOC

"For policymakers deliberating about Medicaid expansions, our results, which draw on the strength of a randomized, controlled design, suggest that newly insured people will most likely use more health care across settings — including the ED and the hospital — for at least 2 years and that expanded coverage is unlikely to drive substantial substitution of office visits for ED use."

Duh. Or, put differently: "When someone else pays for you to eat at the buffet, you better load up your dish because the line is only longer the second time through."

Hillary will fix it.

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[Stim4me]

Medicaid for ALL... then they will buy insurance.

 

[medzeb]

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609533?query=TOC

"For policymakers deliberating about Medicaid expansions, our results, which draw on the strength of a randomized, controlled design, suggest that newly insured people will most likely use more health care across settings — including the ED and the hospital — for at least 2 years and that expanded coverage is unlikely to drive substantial substitution of office visits for ED use."

Duh. Or, put differently: "When someone else pays for you to eat at the buffet, you better load up your dish because the line is only longer the second time through."

Hillary will fix it.

Here's a news flash for you: There is a serious shortage of doctors accepting medicaid patients to begin with and this drives patients to er instead as they can't get in elsewhere in any timely fashion. Happens all the time.

 

[DrCommonSense]

Here's a news flash for you: There is a serious shortage of doctors accepting medicaid patients to begin with and this drives patients to er instead as they can't get in elsewhere in any timely fashion. Happens all the time.

Yeah wonder why Docs won't take medicaid lol

 

[medzeb]

Yeah wonder why Docs won't take medicaid lol

Of course, many aren't excited about working for half the pay. Just explaining how some of the unnecessary er trips happen among medicaid patients; they're often essentially left with no alternative.

 

[bedrock]

Well if government wants physicians to see Medicaid, they'll have to start with paying at least Medicare rates or no good physician will see them.