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The hospitals that are covered by EMTALA (duty to treat) are those that "receive federal assistance, maintain charitable nonprofit tax status, or participate in
by bradleyjg 10y ago
The hospitals that are covered by EMTALA (duty to treat) are those that "receive federal assistance, maintain charitable nonprofit tax status, or participate in Medicare". A hospital is free to get off the federal government gravy train if it thinks it can make more money that way.
- rayiner 10y agoYou can't have the government distorting the market by bringing half of all potential customers under a single taxpayer-funded system then pretend that hospitals have a real choice in whether to participate in those programs.
- Retric 10y agoMany are not part of the system, so they really do have a choice. Granted, location is a big part of this, and it's much simpler to operate this way when population density is high and there are other hospitals in the area.