No, Obamacare has not reduced emergency room visits. And anyone paying attention six years ago knew it was unlikely to do so after the results of the study of Oregon's earlier Medicaid expansion showed no meaningful decline in emergency room use (or improvement in most health outcomes--"coverage" isn't care). Will Oklahoma politicians pay attention to these facts and to the voters, or will they side with a few big medical companies and Obama who are pushing "Medicaid Rebalancing" as the latest w

Obamacare hasn't reduced emergency room visits

When President Barack Obama was selling his signature health care overhaul before it was adopted in 2010, he said, "If everybody's got coverage, then they're not going to the emergency room for treatment."

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