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To: kikogrey who wrote (211105)	7/19/2009 5:37:16 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

Yes, they have to see a doctor. Never said they didn't. I said it could be in a low intensity corner of the ER, staffed with maybe one nurse to 15-20 serfs, err, newly insured. As opposed to the rest of the facility.......lets say a busy level I trauma center. This WILL happen, even if the law gets changed, or the system will simply collapse. EMTALA came into being as a result of several high profile cases of dumping (and some systematic dumping on the part of certain hospitals. More aggressive credentialing could have fixed the problem (i.e, pulling the credentials of offending facilities), instead they went 10X overboard (further straining ER's coast-to-coast to the breaking point). I know of numerous ER physicians in Arizona alone who have quit practice in the last year. And these weren't marginal people, many of them were leaders in the specialty locally......<NG>