Lies of Obamacare: #2034

[The Rabbi]

Remember how proponents of Obamacare told us it would reduce costs because newly covered people would go to doctors instead of using expensive ERs? Yeah, turns out that's also a lie. Lower income people go to ERs, even when a doctor's visit during normal business hours would do just as well and be just as free.
Study finds Medicaid expansion drives up ER visits : News

 

[DGS49]

Please, please, please, please....

Do not equate "lies" with "mistakes."

It was logical to conclude that insured people would make fewer trips to the ER, but it appears that this might have been incorrect. Maybe it will prove to be correct over time, when the newly-insured have developed relationships with their PCP's.

Lies are serious things, and there are enough of them floating around to hang the Progressives in November. It doesn't serve us well when we take honest mistakes and portray they as lies. Eight years of that with Bush43 was enough for me.

 

[The Rabbi]

Please, please, please, please....

Do not equate "lies" with "mistakes."

It was logical to conclude that insured people would make fewer trips to the ER, but it appears that this might have been incorrect. Maybe it will prove to be correct over time, when the newly-insured have developed relationships with their PCP's.

Lies are serious things, and there are enough of them floating around to hang the Progressives in November. It doesn't serve us well when we take honest mistakes and portray they as lies. Eight years of that with Bush43 was enough for me.

It wasnt an honest mistake. People made an assumption that should have been examined. Look at the last Inc Magazine and there is an article by Brodsky where he relates this same exact dynamic with his own employees. No, it was known but swept under the rug.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Remember how proponents of Obamacare told us it would reduce costs because newly covered people would go to doctors instead of using expensive ERs? Yeah, turns out that's also a lie. Lower income people go to ERs, even when a doctor's visit during normal business hours would do just as well and be just as free.
Study finds Medicaid expansion drives up ER visits : News

This has been known for years. I work in an ER. Medicaid people abuse ER's far more than the uninsured. Some liberals known this, but they continue with the same bullshit lies that we have to insure people to prevent ER abuse. In fact...the exact opposite occurs.

Medicaid folks abuse ER's because many of them are stupid and lazy. It is easier to go to an ER (often calling an ambulance at taxpayer expense) than actually making an appointment to see a doctor like the rest of us. Medicaid people also use health services at a much higher rate than the rest of us because many are drug and alcohol addicted and suffer medical issues as a result.

Bright people generally have jobs are get insurance. Stupid people are much more likely to be unemployed and living off the Government dole.