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Obamacare to Boost, Not Reduce ER Visits
Supporters of the healthcare reform legislation passed by Congress claim it will reduce emergency room visits by providing nearly all Americans with the insurance they can use to see a primary care physician.
A new poll says otherwise.
The survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) found that 97 percent of doctors every day treat Medicaid patients in their emergency departments because the patients could not find a doctor willing to treat them for the fee Medicaid would pay.
If Obamacare provides insurance that reimburses physicians at Medicaid rates, visits to the ER will likely increase, according to ACEP.
In fact, 89 percent of doctors polled said they believe ER visits will increase under Obamacare.
“This poll confirms what we are witnessing in Massachusetts — that visits to emergency rooms are going to increase across the country, despite healthcare reform, and that health insurance coverage does not guarantee access to medical care,” said ACEP President Sandra Schneider.
Hundreds of emergency rooms across the country have been forced to shut down due to financial concerns, increasing the workload at those remaining open, and the healthcare reform law fails to address this issue, Dr. Schneider said.
Nearly half of the physicians surveyed in ACEP’s poll said fear of lawsuits is the biggest challenge to cutting costs in emergency rooms, and 53 percent said their fear of lawsuits was the main reason for ordering many of the tests they perform.
Editor's Note:
163 Million Female Babies Aborted
Parental preference for producing sons rather than daughters in a number of societies has led to the aborting of more than 160 million female babies since the late 1970s, an author contends.
Writing about the book “Unnatural Selection” by Mara Hvistendahl, Jonathan V. Last, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, notes that the natural ratio of 105 boys for every 100 girls is “biologically ironclad.”
But in India today there are 112 boys born for every girl. In China, there are 121 boys for every girl, and in many towns the male figure is over 150. In Armenia, the figure is 120.
What is causing the skewed ratio is abortion.
“If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl,” Last writes in an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
"By Ms. Hvistendahl’s counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world.”
What made the skewed ratio possible is the availability of amniocentesis in the mid-1970s, and later ultrasound, to determine the gender of a child before birth.
Last cites an ad put out by an Indian clinic that states, “Better 500 rupees now than 5,000 later,” referring to the price of a sex-determination test versus the cost of a dowry for a daughter.
Skewed sex ratios have had some unpleasant and often violent repercussions through history, Hvistendahl points out, citing the dearth of women along the frontier in the “wild” American West. In 1870, the sex ratio west of the Mississippi was 120 to 100, and in California it was 166 to 100.
“Today in India,” Last observes, “the best predictor of violence and crime for any given area is not income but sex ratio.”
Last also cites the danger that with prenatal sex determination reducing the number of females, “a small but still significant group of the world’s women will end up being stolen or sold from their homes and forced into prostitution or marriage.”
And he goes on to say that “if ‘choice’ is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against ‘gendercide.’ Choice is choice.”
Editor's Note:
We Heard…THAT former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn’t yet decided who he will back for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but it’s hard to discount the fact that he has already toured the Sunshine State with newly announced candidate Jon Huntsman.
Huntsman, former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China, is focusing his campaign heavily on Florida and has set up a campaign headquarters there, the Washington Post reported.
Bush said: “I’m learning more about the governor-slash-ambassador — not sure exactly what we should call him — but I’m impressed because he is very substantive, he talks about the issues, he knows them well. And that’s what we need in a general election.”
THAT Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul has hired GOP pollster Fritz Wenzel and his polling firm Wenzel Strategies to run polling operations for his campaign.
Wenzel Strategies has served Rand Paul’s successful 2010 campaign for the Senate, Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund and various congressional races.
Ron Paul “has long stood strong for the core principles that have made our country great,” Wenzel said.
“At a time when our country is in great peril, voters are looking for a candidate who will turn to and rely on the wisdom of the Constitution, and there is no better student of that document than Ron Paul.”
THAT Paul’s fellow GOP presidential candidate, Herman Cain, has a deal with Threshold Editions to publish his memoir in October.
“With the 2012 election season fully underway, we are thrilled to provide the untold story of one of the campaign’s most compelling candidates,” said Louise Burke, executive vice president and publisher of Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
“‘Who Is Herman Cain?’ will highlight Cain’s lifetime accomplishments that include working as a mathematician for the Department of Navy, hosting an eponymous radio show, and most notably, becoming the turnaround CEO of the Godfather’s Pizza chain.”
Cain said: “Win-win relationships are what you look for in business and that is what I look forward to having with Threshold Editions.”
THAT rocker Tom Petty has sent a cease-and-desist order to Michele Bachmann demanding that she no longer play the song “American Girl” after she closed out the launch of her presidential campaign on Monday to the tune of Petty’s hit single.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Petty demanded that George W. Bush not use his song “I Won’t Back Down” to promote his White House run.
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