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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (490511)5/2/2022 12:08:31 PM
From: S. maltophilia1 Recommendation

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It "solved" the problem in a typical f'ed up republican way

......law has helped millions of people seek treatment and likely saved countless lives, but it has also shifted the cost of some treatment for poor people away from the states and onto private hospitals, as the government provided zero funds to accommodate the extra coverage it mandated. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, which has some qualms with the law as it exists today, “As a result, local and state governments began to abdicate responsibility for charity care, shifting this public responsibility to all hospitals. EMTALA became the de facto national healthcare policy for the uninsured. Congress in 2000 made EMTALA enforcement a priority, with penalties more than $1.17 million, nearly as much as in the first 10 years (about $1.8 million) of the statute combined.” Many observers argue that the law drives up the costs for everyone else, as hospitals have to raise their prices on paying customers in order to cover the costs of their charity care.....


https://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/reagans_healthcare_mandate/


and made a regulatory nightmare for ED's everywhere (the kind r's always yell about, citing gummint overreach) - see Dr Zibulewsky's article cited in the link.

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