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How Does Our Healthcare System Manage with 30 Million Additional Patients?

How Does Our Healthcare System Manage with 30 Million Additional Patients? (0:21)

The potential for dramatic influx of patients threatens to overwhelm emergency rooms and urgent care centers. In this video, HealthMaker Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint Corporation, explains why this is a looming problem.

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To deal with 30 million or so more people entering as you said an already stressed system, efficiency is required and appropriateness of care is absolutely required. If those 30 million folks entering a stress system all show up at the door of an ED somewhere in an urban care setting it's going to be overwhelmed.