Are you suggesting that any truly needy person with a chronic medical condition should only get treatment in the ER? Do you have any idea how much that would push up the cost of medical care for everyone?
No I’m suggesting those 21,000 people didn’t have to die if they went for treatment at the ER. THey can’t be turned away. “One of the things that the previous administration said was that they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms,” Price said at a White House briefing on March 7, 2017. “In fact, they did just the opposite.”