Report Card: D+ for US Emergency Care

NEWSMAX: …A report card on the state of emergency medical care in the U.S. gets a near failing grade of D+ — and the prognosis for 2014 may drop to an F, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

“As more and more Americans come to rely on emergency departments for their acute care needs, particularly aging and sick Boomers and people newly enrolled in Medicaid, such care will increasingly become harder to access,” the report said.

“Despite hoped-for changes and improvements, the environment has not improved; it has, in fact, gotten worse,” according to the report… (more)

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