By end of the line, we aren’t referring to palliative care for a terminally ill patient. We are referring to hospital emergency rooms across the nation increasingly being used as a last resort for medical care.<\/p>\n
This recession has hit people’s health care in ways no one really thought about. People are getting laid off and with their lay off they lose the health care they once had. Not only is this a significant shock to the system, it may mean the person or family is no longer able to afford health care. Expect the numbers of uninsured Americans to rise while until the recession stabilizes and people are able to go back to work.<\/p>\n
This extra burden of more uninsured people really puts a strain on an already overused and abused health care system. What will start to happen, and in fact is already happening, is hospitals becoming the ones who have (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By end of the line, we aren’t referring to palliative care for a terminally ill patient. We are referring to hospital emergency rooms across the nation increasingly being used as a last resort for medical care. This recession has hit…<\/span><\/p>\n