How Obamacare will hurt doctors

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Author(s) Marc Siegel
Source New York Daily News
Date January 16, 2014
URL http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obamacare-hurt-doctors-article-1.1581220
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Quotes-start.png A study just published in the prestigious journal Science reveals that new Medicaid patients in Oregon were 40% more likely to use the emergency room than the uninsured were. This finding is not a surprise to me or most physicians — we have known that truth for years. But it does undermine one of the basic philosophical and practical underpinnings of Obamacare: the notion that expanding insurance will invariably unclog ERs, improve primary and preventive care, prevent diseases and lower costs. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.