It's not just about cutting usage, it's about cutting the right kinds of usage as well.
Lots of Americans, anecdotally, skip out on regular checkups or checking on minor ailments because of anxiety about paying copays. And then eventually something that could've been easily treated when detected initially blows up into an expensive ER visit or requiring specialists.
A good chunk of this could be solved if we stopped using the ER as the catch-all emergency net for literally everything.
Lots of Americans, anecdotally, skip out on regular checkups or checking on minor ailments because of anxiety about paying copays. And then eventually something that could've been easily treated when detected initially blows up into an expensive ER visit or requiring specialists.
A good chunk of this could be solved if we stopped using the ER as the catch-all emergency net for literally everything.