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We told you so:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- It wasn't supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month.


That 12 percent spike in the number of patients — many of whom aren't actually facing true emergencies — is spurring the Louisville hospital to convert a waiting room into more exam rooms.


"We're seeing patients who probably should be seen at our (immediate-care centers)," said Lewis Perkins, the hospital's vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer. "And we're seeing this across the system."

That's just the opposite of what many people expected under Obamacare, particularly because one of the goals of health reform was to reduce pressure on emergency rooms by expanding Medicaid and giving poor people better access to primary care.

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The only people who did not expect this were the Dummy Laureate himself (brie time in private sector described as "felt like a spy behind enemy lines") and his pathetic and clueless enablers.

Anyway, I guess this is bending the cost curve down...
 

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Wait till all the Mexicans get on the government payroll. Can you say complete economic collapse?

Weird that Obama is personal friends with Clower and Piven, who formulated this strategy.

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty"
 

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Well I don't know how they could of expected less ER visits to start off, I would think over time it could be a reasonable goal. My knocks on this has been poor planning and Obama hasn't a clue what he talks about regarding the subject.
 

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Purple, please forgive me for doing this but you've used this incorrect phrase a dozen times. There is no such phrase as, "could of."
 

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Elaine celebrates after Obama assures, "You can keep your doctor."
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Purple, please forgive me for doing this but you've used this incorrect phrase a dozen times. There is no such phrase as, "could of."

Yes I know this, I end up typing so fast sometimes. I guarantee you will never see that phrase in my patient documentation
 

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