"ER Visits Rise Despite Law" is the headline on a Wall Street Journal news article that begins, "Early evidence suggests that emergency rooms have become busier since the Affordable Care Act expanded insurance coverage this year, despite the law's goal of reducing unnecessary care in ERs."
An astute reader-participant-community member-content-co-creator-watchdog asks whether the word "because of" would be a better fit than "despite" in the headline, as newly insured patients head to the emergency room for medical situations that they would have treated on their own before they had insurance. The Journal article gets into these issues some.
