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>As long as Americans can't stomach the idea of turning away people who cannot pay for emergency care to die we have socialized medicine. Seems a tad callous e
by slice_of_life 9y ago
>As long as Americans can't stomach the idea of turning away people who cannot pay for emergency care to die we have socialized medicine.
Seems a tad callous even by my standards as a staunch classical liberal; may be all other medical services but not emergency services.
- EvanAnderson 9y agoI'm not stating an opinion about this fact, I'm simply stating it. (Personally, I think Americans ought to have socialized medicine.) The "conservatives" who bellyached that the ACA created "socialized medicine" willfully ignored (or were ignorant of) the fact that the mandate to treat emergency patients regardless of ability to pay "socialized" medicine when it was passed (by "conservative" stalwart Ronald Regan) in the EMTALA[1] in 1986. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...