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I wonder sometimes if the reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare is the 1987 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires
by smeeth 2y ago
I wonder sometimes if the reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare is the 1987 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires hospitals to provide life-saving emergency care regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
I doubt we'd would be able to handle seeing poor people die in the waiting room because of a ruptured appendix or something, but you don't actually see people go bankrupt so its almost like it never happened.
- maxerickson 2y agoHospitals track uncompensated care, it's a substantial amount but also obviously not the whole problem. https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2023-09-20-blog-uncompensated-care-increases-medicare-dsh-cuts-exacerbate-hospitals-challenges https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2023-09-20-blog-uncompensa...