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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (35983)	4/20/2014 1:45:44 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The laws were put in place to *enable* people to stop and assist if they wanted to without incurring that risk Not to enable people to assist but to encourage people to assist.. "Most such laws do not apply to medical professionals' or career emergency responders' on-the-job conduct" (Wikepedia) Decent people render assistance in an emergency. In this country, decent people stop and assist when someone collapses and emergency rooms have to take everybody. That's not the same thing as paying for their blood pressure medicine or to have a wart removed or a hip replaced. Yes, "decent" and moral people do.....many don't fall into that category and need to be "encouraged" by law or by law suit.... emergency rooms have to take everybody. I have read of some cases in NYC in which major hospitals refused ER care to patient and instead sent him somewhere else...