ER: emergency room

Medicaid expansion won’t reduce unnecessary ER visits

By Jonathan Ingram
05/21/2013
Proponents of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion insist that the expansion is necessary to keep people out of emergency rooms for preventable conditions such as hypertension, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The only problem? Medicaid patients are more likely than the uninsured to use emergency rooms, especially for preventable conditions. In 2010, medical researchers at the...

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