new YORK (Reuters Health) – people who get or
lose health insurance carried out further consultations of emergency
than those with more stable coverage.
This is worrying considering the 32 million of
Americans who get a new health insurance with the
reform of the health system of the President Barack Obama.
In the new study, the results also suggest that the
number of consultations in emergency rooms are stabilized
when a person stays with or without insurance for more than one
year.
“suspect (emergency) queries decrease,
“”
for what would be only a transient increase”, said the
Dr. Adit Ginde, expert in emergentology of the Faculty of
Medicine of the University of Colorado in Aurora.
With his team, Ginde analysed responses from about 160,000
adult to a national survey of health between the 2004
and 2009.
El 83 percent had health coverage at the time of
answer. 21 Percent of that group had attended a
room of emergencies at least once, compared with 20
per cent of those who did not have health insurance.
30 Percent of the 6,200 participants who had
had health insurance for less than a year he said that he had
made an emergency consultation recently,
compared to 20 per cent of the group with coverage during
more than one year.
And the same thing happened with uninsured participants of
health, according to Archives of Internal Medicine.
The 26 percent of the 6,000 people crunching of
lose their coverage had attended an emergency room the
last year, compared with less than 19 percent of the Group
never had health insurance.
The relationship between getting and losing health insurance and the
emergency consultations was maintained even after considering the level
economic, ethnic, health and age of the participants.
The team found also that members of Medicare, the
safe public health of United States for the poor, they were
more likely to have made an emergency consultation the
previous year.
“have coverage does not mean that they have a doctor of
“”
head”, said the author.
Is that, regardless of the type of insurance, which
recently they do they would have trouble getting an appointment
with a doctor or would have to wait some days prior to
request it. For the team, such barriers would make that
some consult in emergency rooms.
In regard to those who lose insurance, Ginde considered that
there might be some reasons why begin to use
emergency consultations.
“could exist (a cause) by which lost the
“
coverage. “They would have become ill and lost work (…) or
are only used to use health services”,
told Reuters Health.
But consult in emergency room has a cost,
even for those without insurance because “billed them these
“”
Services”, explained Rachel Garfield, senior researcher of the
Of the family Kaiser Foundation, in the city of Washington.
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, online March 26
2012
