Emergency-Room Visits Continue to Rise Under Obamacare
By Rick Pearcey • May 4, 2015, 11:32 AM
At the Washington Free Beacon:
Emergency-room visits continue to rise in the second year of Obamacare, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The visits are up despite claims by President Obama that the law would reduce emergency-room visits because Obamacare would increase access to other kinds of care.
"There was a grand theory the law would reduce ER visits," Dr. Howard Mell of the American College of Emergency Physicians was quoted as telling the Journal. "Well, guess what, it hasn’t happened. Visits are going up despite the ACA, and in a lot of cases because of it."
