Since 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital emergency room to treat an injury like a broken elbow regardless

Since 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital emergency room to treat an injury like a broken elbow regardless of ability to pay or whether you were insured. So in the richest country on earth you do not in fact, neither before nor after obamacare, need to use duct tape for a fracture.