One of the pitches used to justify the gargantuan bill was that health costs were being driven up a lot by uninsured people going to emergency rooms for non-emergency medical problems. In this report NCPA’s John Goodman shows that if anything, Obamacare is apt to increase reliance on emergency room care.
But heck, if you pass a 2000 page bill no one has completely read, much less carefully analyzed, you should expect a few little problems where hype and reality collide.
