9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas »
Posted By altnrg 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & FitnessJust nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.
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k9kssr7 months, 1 week ago
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Believe me, some of those who abuse the ER have affordable health care coverage....Medicare and Medicaid.....so it is not just the uninsured. There are many reasons why insured people come into the ER other than a true emergency. Some are hypochondriacs and "don't ENJOY good health". Some have Munchausens, they like the attention. Some have caregivers who don't want to care for them at home, but don't want to place them in long-term care facilities and try repeatedly to get them admitted to avoid caring for them. There is a significant amount of insurance/medicare abuse by recipients that is never addressed or spoken of. I know of one case in which 3 people were using the insurance card and benefits of one person and I don't think that is an isolated incident.
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If you notice the headline, 9 patients made 2700 ER visits in 6 years.....9 patients/2700 visits equals 300 visits divided by 6 years equals 50 visits per year per patient. That's almost a visit a week.....something definitely going on there that has nothing to do with being insured or not (although these patient's in the article weren't).
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pokydoke7 months, 1 week ago
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No they are lazy and won't work hard enough to pay for health ins. I'm not spending my hard earned money on a bunch of shiftless bums. Oh wait I am because instead of spreading the cost of caring for the indigent over the whole they are concentrating it on just a few who use the hospitals in the Austin area. We do need an effective national health care policy.
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k9kssr7 months, 1 week ago
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It is a long and difficult process to get the courts to declare someone "incompetent", much less get an order of detainment. An EOD (emergency order of detainment) usually means they are a danger to themselves or others.
The suggestion might be to refer to mental health, but they have to be willing to keep that referral, they can't be forced by a doctor to do so. -
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injest7 months, 1 week ago
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Wouldn't it be amazing if they had affordable (or government) health care coverage and could have gone to a doctor.
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Que?
They did,
$3 million dollars worth.
Did you read the article?
“Eight of the nine patients have drug abuse problems”
Victimless crime cept you and me forked out $3 mill for it, do you not “feel’ like a victim?
“seven were diagnosed with mental health issues”
Drug addicts with mental problems? Naw can’t be true!
three were homeless
Homeless? really? I wonder why?
BTW how many Homeless drug addicts with mental problems use a phone to make appointments with a doctor?
Even if it were ABSOLUTLY FREE?
Ave 4.17 ER rooms “visits” per month for 6 years, for each of the 9!
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