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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joefromspringfield who wrote (139637)	7/30/2012 12:01:27 PM
From: Paul V.	Respond to of 224738

joe, Federal law requires every US hospital to provide emergency room services to all. You are correct. That is why the local hospitals where I live, quote the CEO, "stabilizes," the injured person and transports them to the trauma unit in Columbia. Beyond that I don't know of any state that requires private hospitals or doctors to accept and treat patients that say they can't pay for their medical care. I believe that Barnes and St. Louis University Hospitals both are trauma unit hospitals. Either the hospital hospital absorbs the cost, or it is passed on to other policy holder through their insurance cost. That was before ACA where the millions of individuals will have to purchase insurance one way or the other. However, what will be the role of the hospitals under the existing Federal law you have mentioned above? I do not know.