Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Rich, Not Poor, Are Crowding Emergency Rooms

This is the conventional wisdom: Priced out of health insurance, ever more Americans are crowding into emergency rooms because they can’t afford a trip to the doctor. Yes, ERs are getting busier. But it’s not because of poor people or the uninsured, according to this analysis in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The study is [...]

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