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Thanks for the date, that's helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Med

Thanks for the date, that's helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an... >It requires hospital Emergency Departments that accept payments from Medicare to provide an appropriate medical screening examination (MSE) to anyone seeking treatment for a medical condition, regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay.

mikeash 9y ago
Yep, that’s the law in question. Republicans profess to be against socialized medicine, yet very few of them propose repealing EMTALA. It’s suspicious.
- FireBeyond 9y ago
  All they need to do is make Medicare sufficiently unattractive that more and more hospitals opt out of accepting Medicare patients and they're no longer covered by EMTALA. Same end result, without the negative publicity.
- katastic 9y ago
  And they also say Veteran's Affairs healthcare is great... which is socialized.