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Paying for more preventative care, instead of the care required in the ER after the health issue became too serious, should help bring costs down.
by kittiepryde 8y ago
Paying for more preventative care, instead of the care required in the ER after the health issue became too serious, should help bring costs down.
- ksenzee 8y agoPossibly. There was a study on this in Oregon, and the data suggested that people who use the ER for their primary medical care keep doing so even after they're insured: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/19/498526110/emergency-room-use-stays-high-in-oregon-medicaid-study https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/19/4985261...
- vilmosi 8y agoInsurance has co-pays, does it not? People who use ER as their primary medical care would avoid that if possible.
- lowbloodsugar 8y ago"People who self selected to apply for free medical care used it", study finds. More at 11. People who self selected for free medical care didn't have much better health outcome than others who were not selected, except that they didn't go bankrupt. So, the group that didn't get paid for didn't go to the ER, while the group that did get paid for went to the ER but didn't have better health outcomes than those that didn't. Surely that says something about the private, for profit institutions that run the ER business.