HHS: Hospitals saved billions under ObamaCare

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7. About 2/3rds of hospitals in the US are non for profit. The rest are government or for profit.

When someone has insurance they are able to go to a walk-in clinic or urgent care clinic and do not need to rely on an emergency dept. for health care. Thus the hospital is free to take care of true emergencies. Waiting rooms were, in previous years, packed with Patients who had no insurance whatsoever. According to COBRA and EMTALA laws an ER cannot turn anyone away. Some for profit hospitals were charging fees up front in order to be seen by a nurse practitioner or doctor.
Uncompensated care, as mentioned above, was a huge deficit for healthcare organizations and it affected, and still does to a much lesser degree, all who try to deliver a high level of healthcare to all.