[quote=SK in CV][quote=livinincali][quote=SK in CV]
No. ER’s utilization will go down, but revenues will go up because the number of patients with coverage will go up. Staffing may go down, but long waits at ER’s should go down. If anything, charges can be reduced for the reduced number of uninsured because less cost sharing will be necessary.[/quote]
Do we measure total health care spending in the country based on invoiced amounts or payments actually received?[/quote]
Payments actually made.[/quote]
So if hospital revenues go up because the people that come in actually have insurance to pay doesn’t that mean as a nation we’ve just increased the total cost of health care. More revenue for hospitals means higher spending on health care and we haven’t even gotten to the increased demand for general practitioner or the overhead associated with running the state exchanges.
How is this going to make health care more affordable again, if we are indeed going to be spending more per capita on health care.