The Decline of Emergency Care

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3. We've lost 2 hospitals in the last 10 years because they could not overcome the costs in the ER

reimbursement rates are too low in this area so they gave up and folded. With trauma centers the losses are even greater.

The insurance racketeers and the tax laws that let this go on is what is destroying ER and Trauma centers. As more and more people are pushed to pay for insurance with costs so high they still cannot afford to obtain services, they will be pushed into ERs when they are the most expensive to treat.

It's an idiotic system that does not work except to shovel more money to the few who own the majority of insurance stocks.