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2017-06-03 Economy

A big health insurer is planning to punish patients for 'unnecessary' ER visits

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-03 03:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Big-a$$ lawsuit that makes the whole idea an orphan in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...

Posted by gorb 2017-06-03 04:09|| 2017-06-03 04:09|| Front Page Top

#2 ER is horribly overused by folks that 'don't have to pay for it' and come in with very minor aliments or injuries. Apparently they can't (or won't) use the 'Urgent Care' facilities most health care systems have and designed for such situations.

Drains resources for the folks truly needing the ER.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-06-03 07:22|| 2017-06-03 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 How does one say "bring your car title" in Spanish ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-03 08:03|| 2017-06-03 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 If you think you're having a stroke or heart attack wait until you're sure before going to the ER. It is an effective way to make Obamacare fiscally sound, by ridding us of many of the most medically expensive pat of the population.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-06-03 08:42|| 2017-06-03 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 What No.2 said! It's like those protestors who block roads so emergency vehicles transporting patients are grid locked on the road. In these cases, stuck in the queue line for dangerously extended waits.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-03 09:21|| 2017-06-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 My employer faced a similar problem five or six years ago - ER use was skyrocketing. They raised the co-pay for ER visits from $50 to $150 and ER usage plummeted.

When it's somebody else's money, usage goes up.

Posted by Bobby 2017-06-03 09:30|| 2017-06-03 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Illegals already have a single payer healthcare plan immediately upon arrival, YOU and local ER! What do you think makes the ER so damn expensive. The people on your healthcare plan bill they forget to list, those who don't pay.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-06-03 10:16|| 2017-06-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 NoMoreBS nails it. Illegals along with assorted other deadbeats and freeloaders use the ER as their own personal general practitioner. They don't pay. We do. But it gets worse. When legitimate patients come to the ER with extreme pain or life threatening conditions they have to wait while the illegals are seen for a case of the sniffles.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-06-03 13:06|| 2017-06-03 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The clinical difference between a simple fainting spell and a cardiac arrest, is that you wake up after a fainting spell.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-06-03 13:15|| 2017-06-03 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Apparently they can't (or won't) use the 'Urgent Care' facilities most health care systems have and designed for such situations.

Our local emergency room has an urgent care clinic next door, so they can triage them right out the door at intake. So much easier than asking them to go off to an unknown somewhere on the map.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-06-03 14:01|| 2017-06-03 14:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Our area hospitals have very similar setups too, TW. Either next door over or across the street (with an active crosswalk system).

Some very rural areas don't though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-06-03 19:39|| 2017-06-03 19:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I am an RN. I keep telling folks that we should be billing the illegal's country of origin these medical expenses.

Posted by texhooey 2017-06-03 23:17|| 2017-06-03 23:17|| Front Page Top