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See Latest ArticlesInsured African-Americans more likely to use emergency room than other insured groups
EurekAlert, 10/08/09
Health insurance, and the access it provides to a primary care physician, should reduce the use of a major driver of health care costs: the emergency room. Yet in a policy brief released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, researchers found that in California, privately insured African Americans enrolled in HMOs are far more likely to use the ER and to delay getting needed prescription drugs than HMO–insured members of other racial and ethnic groups.
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