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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (490511)	5/2/2022 11:03:09 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542838

Digging up the corpses of the GOP doesn't make the current crop of lunatics more palatable. It just makes you realize how fucked up the current GOP is.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (490511)	5/2/2022 12:08:31 PM
From: S. maltophilia	1 Recommendation Recommended By koan Respond to of 542838

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.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (490511)

5/2/2022 2:59:53 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542838

What you do not understand is that doing some good things does not mitigate crimes.

No matter how good you have been your entire life, if you rob a bank or kill someone, you go to jail.

And jail is where Nixon, Reagan and Bush and Trump should be!

Reagan taxed social security so he had money to borrow from them and could cut taxes on his rich friends; and he blew up the deficits, and he cut social programs everywhere he could.

He is the one who started bashing and cutting the government, so the Republicans could make more tax cuts for the rich, and which the entire Republican party has gotten on board with!

The result of which is that we have a 30 trillion debt and one of the worst social systems in the western world!

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Do you know why we have universal access to emergency care?

Reagan's healthcare mandate | Salon.com
salon.com

Jul 5, 2012 — The law requires hospitals to treat patients in need of emergency care regardless of their ability to pay, citizenship or even legal status. It ...