Cuts to Medicaid and to insurance subsidies will push ERs past the brink

Cuts to Medicaid and to insurance subsidies will push ERs past the brink

Back in 2007, President George W. Bush was being challenged on his opposition to the Children’s Health Insurance Program — which provides health coverage for children in families too poor to afford private insurance, yet too “wealthy” to qualify for Medicaid. His response was honest, if characteristically clumsy: “People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”