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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (767586)2/3/2014 12:51:16 AM
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>> It requires them to provide emergency services.

If you close the emergency department, few people are going to show up for emergency treatment. If they make it onto the campus (within 250 yards) they must be stabilized, or if a pregnant woman in labor she will deliver at the hospital. But you are not going to have ambulances coming in and people walking in off the street with colds or needing a couple of stitches.

Essentially, your obligation under the law doesn't go away but becomes a minimal commitment. And while a few ERs have closed over the last few years, they generally don't because they make money for the hospital even after half of the ER visits are uncompensated.
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