Another “duh” moment. You mean cramming an additional 32 million people into already-crowded emergency rooms will result in more overcrowding and not less? Go figure.

Seriously though, Democrats argued that providing government-sponsored health insurance would lead to less crowding in the ER because patients would be able to go to regular doctors rather than head to the hospital for every ache and pain. Turns out…not so much.

The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities…

People who build hospitals, however, say newly insured people will still go to emergency rooms for primary care because they don’t have a doctor.

“Everybody expected that one of the initial impacts of reform would be less pressure on emergency departments; it’s going to be exactly the opposite over the next four to eight years,” said Rich Dallam, a healthcare partner at the architectural firm NBBJ, which designs healthcare facilities.

“We don’t have the primary care infrastructure in place in America to cover the need. Our clients are looking at and preparing for more emergency department volume, not less,” he said.

Once again we turn to Massachusetts for insight into our future. The state created nearly-universal health care in 2006. The result? According to a survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians, wait times either increased or stagnated.

Welcome to the opening stages of rationing, which was entirely predictable. You can’t shove 32 million people into an already-overloaded health care system without increasing the number of doctors available, at least not without longer wait times or even completely unavailable service.

Eventually Democrats will turn to this new national tragedy, created by their own misguided activism. The result will be limiting how much care you can receive, when you can receive it, and from whom you can receive it. In short, more federal interference in your health care than ever before and, low and behold, rationing.

Republicans warned of this outcome long before Congressional Democrats rammed government-run health care through Congress. Democrats called the warnings “scare tactics” and vehemently denied any of them would come to fruition. Turns out Republicans were right and Democrats were wrong.