From Chicago Tribune News Services:
It's not how sick you are but whether you have health insurance that often determines how quickly you can get urgently needed follow-up care after emergency room treatment, a study has found.
Private insurance gives patients a far better chance of getting appointments within a week of treatment than does Medicaid or no insurance, according to the study of 430 clinics in nine U.S. cities.
The findings shatter the myth that "when people really need care, they get it," said lead author Dr. Brent Asplin, head of emergency medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.
Dr. Karin Rhodes, an emergency physician at the University of Chicago, was co-author. The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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