Review-Journal: No End In Sight for ER Crowding

Obama Promised Savings, Reduced ER Crowding Under ObamaCare:

 “And you also don't do anything about the fact that taxpayers currently end up subsidizing the uninsured when they're forced to go to the emergency room for care, to the tune of about a thousand bucks per family.  You can't get those savings if those people are still going to the emergency room.  So the fact is, health reform only works if you take care of all of these problems at once.”  (President Obama, Remarks by the President on Health Care Reform, 3/3/2010)

RED ALERT: Editorial Warns ObamaCare Provisions Won’t Ease Strain On Overcrowded Emergency Rooms: 

“Obamacare -- the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- was enacted in March, though many of its provisions won't take effect till 2014…But it didn't take four years for indications to surface that Obamacare could actually make things worse. ‘Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law,’ The Associated Press reported this week. ‘That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding,’ writes The AP's Carla K. Johnson. ‘It would seem these patients would be able to get routine health care by visiting a doctor's office, as most of the insured do. But it's not that simple.’” (“ER Crowding Could Get Worse,” Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial, 7/7/2010)