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> Hmmmm. I mean, yes, but doctors will still save your life even if you declined to buy any insurance all life long or pay taxes or whatever. ERs in the US are
by yamtaddle 4y ago
> Hmmmm. I mean, yes, but doctors will still save your life even if you declined to buy any insurance all life long or pay taxes or whatever.
ERs in the US are required to provide stabilizing care to patients who come in, even if the patient can't pay, by law. It's a law because otherwise some of them wouldn't.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoIt's also a Reagan law. So you can say that it was Reagan that introduced universal healthcare to the US.
- yamtaddle 4y agoEh, kinda, but it's not like you can walk into an ER with just any condition and get treated for free. You've got to be having pretty serious problems before they're required to do anything about it, and even then they're not required to fully treat you, just get you stable.
- Kkoala 4y agoImagine thinking that mandatory stabilizing emergency care means "universal healthcare" I hope that was a joke
- superpatosainz 4y agoThat's not what universal healthcare means.