From Bloomberg:
“When you pull out privately insured individuals from emergency departments, the people who end up going are people who don’t have access to other services,” said Jesse Pines, an associate professor of emergency medicine and health policy at George Washington University in Washington.
For Kaiser, “it makes a lot of sense,” Pines said in a telephone interview. “But it will horribly increase the uncompensated and under-compensated care burden of local emergency departments.”
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