With Health Care Reform, Will Doctors Start To Turn Patients Away?

The initial idea was that the nationalized health care plan being proposed by President Obama would cut down the amount of trips made to hospital emergency rooms each day being that people who seek emergency room care for routine medical issues would now have the health care insurance coverage that they need to schedule standard doctor visits.  Looking at the bigger picture however, shows a scary thought and the new health care plan may in fact cause an increase in the amount of non-emergency, emergency room visits daily.
 
A closer look at the current health care structure actually reveals that the uninsured, within the United States, actually utilize the ER less frequently than those patients who are currently on Medicare and Medicaid, and the primary basis is that Medicare and Medicaid pay very little to providers for the care that the dispense to these patients and because of this doctor's are more apt to turn them away at the office.  This leaves them with no choice but to visit the Hospital in search of regular care. 
 
Under the proposed plan the majority of of individuals who are living with no insurance would be covered under Medicaid or a subdivision of this branch of the medical care system and because of this they would also be discriminated against when making an attempt to see a health care practitioner in his/her office.  This will essentially elevate the number of individuals being serviced in the nation's emergency rooms. 
 
A closer look at the proposal gives further reason for concern as it gives no plan to raise the number of providers, while it vastly promises to elevate the number of patients in the system.  This will lead to physician's offices being too booked and turning away patients that require care and these individuals will need to also turn to the Hospital doctors as their primary care physicians.
 
Overall, while the health care reform does allow a few to hope, there are undoubtedly a few shortcomings in the plan.  As physicians become crowed with patients they will probably become selective trying to cater to those people with the top insurance plans first, and thus leaving the rest with no where else to turn.  This brings about a very important question: Is there really any hope for bettering the health care system in this country?

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