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Roughly 26 million Americans do not have health insurance. Most of these people are forced to use hospital emergency rooms as their primary source of medical care. Many of our nation’s emergency rooms loose hundreds of millions of dollars each year and some have closed for this reason. In human terms, ER patients often wait long periods of time before receiving treatment while others are unable to receive treatment at all. There are about 6,500 emergency departments and rooms in the U.S. And according to the CDC, nearly 136 million patients visit these emergency rooms each year, with 40 million of these visits being injury-related. In 2017, the total cost of American emergency room visits was $76.3 billion, with an average per-visit cost of about $2,200.
Studies show a widespread and increasing level of overcrowding in America’s emergency departments, a crisis that puts patient safety and access to care at risk. Due to overcrowded conditions at local ERs, about 45% of all emergency departments now divert ambulances to more distant hospitals. Data shows that ERs with low profit margins and those at for-profit facilities were nearly twice as likely to close as other ERs. Experts say that we do not have enough rural emergency room facilities and these assets are woefully inadequate to treat large numbers of victims from a disaster, terror attack, or another pandemic.
Proposed Legislation: Reintroduction of H.R.8163 - Improving Trauma Systems and Emergency Care Act (117th Congress 2021-2022)
Prospective Sponsor: Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ) |
- I oppose reforming current emergency room policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA).
- I support reauthorizing funding for trauma and emergency care programs, providing at least $100 million for each of the next four years, and wish to donate resources to Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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I support reauthorizing funding for trauma and emergency care programs, providing at least $100 million for each of the next four years, and wish to donate resources to Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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- Representative
If elected as a trustee, the campaign committee of Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ) will be unconditionally awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting him to favorably consider either reintroducing H.R.8163 - Improving Trauma Systems and Emergency Care Act (117th Congress 2021-2022), or a similar version thereof.
- American College of Emergency Physicians
If elected as a trustee, American College of Emergency Physicians will be awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting these funds be used to advocate for increasing the number of trauma centers, and for improved access to trauma-related services.
About: ACEP represents more than 38,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents and medical students. ACEP promotes the highest quality of emergency care and is the leading advocate for emergency physicians and their patients, and the public. The College continually strives to improve the quality of emergency medical services through the development of evidence-based clinical policies, funding emergency medicine research, providing public education on emergency care and disaster preparedness and legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts.
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- No trustee votes received.
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| Poll Opening Date |
March 27, 2023 |
| Poll Closing Date |
April 02, 2023 |
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