Thanks to EMTALA, trauma centers and emergency rooms have to treat illegals, and as we all know, illegals use those places as their primary care. Deny Medicaid to these places and they go broke within months.
I don't like it, but until EMTALA is repealed I'd rather the trauma centers we do have stay open.
No one will ever touch EMTALA, though, because the media will portray that as tossing grandma out on the street because they can't pay.
Aren't criminals afraid of going to the hospital because gunshot wounds get reported and they might get arrested? Do the same thing with illegals. You get treated, but you also get deported.
EMTALA makes sense in a high trust society. The problem is twofold, 1. Government designed health insurance has made access to primary care far longer and more tedious than necessary or even profitable. 2. EMTALA clogs EDs with people who abuse the system and will never pay their bill. If we had a pre ACA healthcare system or just flat out abolished insurance providers in their modern capacity problem 1 wouldn’t exist. If we stopped forcing emergency care for urgent care or primary care situations then the problem solves itself. Government will never do this by choice, they despise low cost solutions. They created a 20 billion dollar industry forcing hospitals to pay administrative costs to be compliant with healthcare laws every year, they have zero compunction about forcing socialism in cost while claiming private care.
Thanks to EMTALA, trauma centers and emergency rooms have to treat illegals, and as we all know, illegals use those places as their primary care. Deny Medicaid to these places and they go broke within months.
I don't like it, but until EMTALA is repealed I'd rather the trauma centers we do have stay open.
No one will ever touch EMTALA, though, because the media will portray that as tossing grandma out on the street because they can't pay.
Aren't criminals afraid of going to the hospital because gunshot wounds get reported and they might get arrested? Do the same thing with illegals. You get treated, but you also get deported.
EMTALA makes sense in a high trust society. The problem is twofold, 1. Government designed health insurance has made access to primary care far longer and more tedious than necessary or even profitable. 2. EMTALA clogs EDs with people who abuse the system and will never pay their bill. If we had a pre ACA healthcare system or just flat out abolished insurance providers in their modern capacity problem 1 wouldn’t exist. If we stopped forcing emergency care for urgent care or primary care situations then the problem solves itself. Government will never do this by choice, they despise low cost solutions. They created a 20 billion dollar industry forcing hospitals to pay administrative costs to be compliant with healthcare laws every year, they have zero compunction about forcing socialism in cost while claiming private care.
Should have put term limits onto page 4,532
So the TLDR bills worked against the assholes for a change. Let see if it still continues.
The funny thing being that the senate version was read out in its entirety. Should be standard for all bills IMO.
non-archive link
Credit to MythArcana for posting this on T_D