Obama’s Medicaid expansion under ObamaCare will lead to more emergency room visits, study suggests

One of the feeble arguments President Obama and the Democrat Party made during the snow job for Obamacare was that people without insurance were going to emergency rooms for routine medical care and thus clogging up the system and forcing the rest of society to cover the cost.  Obamacare was supposed to solve all that.

Well, it doesn’t!

Fox News reports Capitol Hill Republicans are not surprised by a new study that suggests more people will make emergency room visits under ObamaCare, not fewer as President Obama and other supporters of the law argue.


The Harvard University study recently published in the journal Science shows that emergency room visits increased by 40 percent for those who received Medicaid when Oregon expanded the program in 2008.

“While these higher costs don’t come as a surprise to many, it has left us wondering why do Democrats call it the Affordable Care Act if the law doesn’t lower the cost of heath care,” said Michigan Republican Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Roughly 2.1 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare since signups started in October, as the administration aims to eventually get health insurance to about 25 million Americans by 2016. And roughly half of those will be covered through Medicaid expansion.

The president has touted his signature law since introducing it in 2007 as a means of saving Americans money.

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