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To: i-node who wrote (844728)	3/24/2015 1:13:51 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573941

"This is not like Al's wife's preventive care which I don't want to pay for yet would be required to if I were on an Obamacare policy." You can't always get what you want. I'll bet the women covered by your carrier don't want to pay anything towards your preventative care, either. "for all I know, am paying for even though I'm not." You pay for everybody on Medicaid, and all uninsured who use the ER as their primary care physician. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) [1] is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals that accept payments from Medicare to provide emergency health care treatment to anyone needing it regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay. en.wikipedia.org I can't remember who was president in '86; that was the year I moved up here. Had to have been a Dem, tho. No way an R would have done such a dastardly deed. Can you imagine Raygun saying, "Free care for everybody"? No way.