With Health Care Reform, Will Doctors Start To Turn Patients Away?

The initial thought was that the nationalized health care plan being suggested by President Obama would reduce the number of visits made to hospital emergency rooms each day given that individuals who seek emergency room care for routine health care issues would now have the health care insurance coverage that they will need to schedule standard physician visits.  Looking at the bigger picture however, exposes a scary concept and the new health care plan might in fact cause an increase in the amount of non-emergency, emergency room visits daily.
 
A look at the current health care structure actually shows that the uninsured, throughout the United States, in fact take advantage of the ER less frequently than those patients who are currently on Medicare and Medicaid, and the leading reason is because Medicare and Medicaid pay very little to providers for the care in which dispense to these patients and because of this physician‘s are more apt to turn them away at the office.  This leaves them with no alternative but to head to the ER in search of standard care. 
 
Under the proposed plan the majority of of those who are living without insurance would be covered under Medicaid or some subdivision of this branch of the medical care system and therefore they would also be discriminated against when making an attempt to visit a health care practitioner in his/her office.  This will essentially increase the amount of individuals being attended to in the nation’s emergency rooms. 
 
A closer glimpse at the proposal delivers further reason for concern as it gives no approach to increase the quantity of providers, while it vastly promises to elevate the amount of patients in the system.  This will lead to doctor‘s offices being overbooked and turning away patients in need of care and these individuals will need to also turn to the Hospital doctors as their chief treatment physicians.
 
Overall, while the health care reform does cause some to hope, there are certainly a few imperfections in the plan.  As doctors become over booked they will most likely become selective making an attempt to cater to those people with the best insurance plans first, and therefore leaving the rest out in the cold.  This gives rise to the question: Is there actually any hope for improving upon the health care system in this country?

By: Ethan C Kalvin

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