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I’ve been saying for a while that until and unless people start advocating for the repeal of EMTALA (the law which requires ERs to treat everyone), there isn’t
by mikeash 9y ago
I’ve been saying for a while that until and unless people start advocating for the repeal of EMTALA (the law which requires ERs to treat everyone), there isn’t any debate over whether we should have socialized medicine, merely over how.
- tntn 9y agoI don't think that socialized medicine is certainly necessary. Compulsory private health insurance like Switzerland is workable.
- arethuza 9y agoSo who pays for the treatment of people who can't afford to pay for their own private health insurance?
- komali2 9y agoIf it can be simply made up for by the Swiss equivalent of SS I guess that'd be nice, seems like private health insurance wouldn't care either way. Then again this goes against my theory that socialized aid should come directly in the form of the thing needed - voucher for healthcare, food (or very specific food vouchers), rent free housing or vouchers for housing, rather than cash which is a bit silly to give to someone the government failed to give good financial education to (speaking from experience here...) There's a reason theres a huge market for under the table financial management among the trapped impoverished.
- mikeash 9y agoMy point isn’t about whether or not it’s necessary. It’s that we have it already, just in a weird and inefficient form. Our politicians pretend to debate over whether we should have it, when in fact we’ve had it for three decades and nobody serious is proposing to change that.