She warned that "emergency visits will increase, as we have seen in Massachusetts, which already has universal coverage...health insurance coverage does not equal access to medical care, and emergency visits are increasing in that state. This means critical problems facing emergency patients are not going away... America's medical liability system is broken and without true medical liability reform, patients' access to lifesaving care will continue to suffer.... ERs are a critical, life-or-death part of our health care system and ERs need help now. This crisis in emergency care is everyone's problem, because every person is only one step away from a medical emergency." They encourage ED docs to accept it and try to do the best we can to improve what has been handed to us...."
"...I am calling on emergency physicians to unify and find a common bond in the needs of our patients, and put the rancor and division of the path to health care reform behind us in the interest of better emergency care for everyone."
Personally, I've always been in favor of some sort of Universal Health Care, and I've made that clear over the past few years. However, I think we're all in for a rude awakening.
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