poorwhore 100million people,1 outof 3 people, visit the emergency room a year?
more proof that Obamanoids are monkeys not people On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]>wrote: > > The Cost Of Insurance Reform VS No Reform > is $1 Trillion VS $1.5 Trillion. > > Sean Lewis > November 10,2009 > > I was curious what the actual numbers were, so I did a > Google search on the issues. > > What was the average cost of an Emergency Room Visit? > Answer: $1,000 > > How Many People used Emergency Rooms per year? > Answer 100,000,000,000 a year. > > How Many People are uninsured? > On average %15. > > This is just a quick thumbnail comparison, but it does give a > better idea of what the fuss is all about. > > Each year, more than 100 million visits are made to emergency rooms > around the country. At an average cost of $1,000 a visit, the annual > price tag for ER care tops more than a billion dollars. And to make > matters worse, most of these visits aren't even real emergencies. > > http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/Information/item/Avoiding+the+High+Cost+of+Emergency+Car?archiveChannel=Home/Article&clicked=true > > Analyzing data from the Community Tracking Study Household Surveys, > researchers found that uninsured individuals accounted for 15.5 > percent of emergency department visits in 1996-1997, but only 14.5 > percent of visits in 2003-2004. During the same period, the > proportion of visits by higher income people (equal to or greater than > 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level) increased from 21.9 percent > to 29 percent. The proportion of visits by those whose usual source > of care was a physician’s office rose from 52.4 percent to 59 > percent. Overall emergency department visits rose from 90.3 million > in 1996 to 113.9 million in 2004, an increase of 26 percent. > http://www.acep.org/pressroom.aspx?id=37562 > > Health care reform, if it passes, will cost about $1 trillion over the > next 10 years. Negotiators in the Senate and House are now saying > they've winnowed the cost down to "only" $900 billion or so. Where > will that money come from? Look in the mirror. > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/10/business/moneywatch/main5230656.shtml > > For those who do not understand what I just posted > > Currently the uninsured who use emergency rooms for medical treatment > is about 15% of > all emergency room visits of about $150,000,000, 000 a year. > > The cost of health insurance reform is about $100,000,000,000 a year. > > So the savings to tax payers and Corporate America is about > $50,000,000,000 > a year, and this is calculating the average Emergency room visit costs > $1,000. > > So the savings over 10 years for American taxpayers and Corporations > is > $500,000,000,000. > > This does not include the lowering of premiums and the lowering of > medical costs > now that both hospitals and Insurance companies are no longer passing > on the costs of the uninsured to thier insured customers. > > In addition morally we need to stop the preventable deaths of 18,000 > Americans > a year who do not have health insurance because they can't afford it > or because > they have an uninsured precondition. > > My Sunday column looks at health care reform through the prism of > Nikki White, a young woman from Tennessee. She became too sick with > Lupus to work — and then lost her health insurance, and then died > because of lack of medical care. We may know intellectually that > 18,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have insurance, but > to confront one such person is still heartbreaking. And I just can’t > believe that we will let this opportunity for health reform slip > through our fingers, so that Americans like Nikki continue to die > needlessly every 30 minutes. > http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/nikki-white-and-health-care/ > > For me this is a no brainier do the Health Insurance reform, it IS > cost effective., > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
