Emergency Care in U.S Failing to Provide Help, While Insurers Prosper

There is yet another dilemma in the insurance world – bad emergency care. While patients can’t get through to neurosurgeons, insurers continue making money. Surprisingly, the amount of emergency divisions in the U.S has decreased by a shocking 14% since 1993, while the number of people visiting hospitals has augmented. Due to these problems, the victims of Hurricane Katrina and other ecological destructions couldn’t receive all of the help that was necessary for medical improvement, and even survival.

“Americans assume they will receive lifesaving emergency care when and where they need it, but increasingly that isn’t the case”. Those were the words of Dr. Frederick C. Blum, who agrees with the fact that emergency care in the United States is steadily declining.

The best emergency care happens to be in California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts and in the District of Columbia. While Massachusetts is one of the states with the best emergency care, they have problems with this issue as well. Dr. Epstein recalled a certain incident which shocked the ears of many. He concluded that in Massachusetts, an eight year old boy was denied medical care after a terrible sledding accident. He was then sent to another hospital in Connecticut. If Massachusetts is considered having “good” medical care, then I can imagine what is going in the states that are considered to have the worst medical care like Utah, Idaho and Arkansas.

As bad as this case may be, insurers claim that they have nothing to do with this issue. I can observably understand their statement, considering the fact that most hospitals, especially public hospital, depend on the government. Therefore, insurers continue to make more money while the public of America loses protection. With issues like these continuing to grow, we really don’t know what to expect.