The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, was passed in 1986 as a federal anti-dumping law. It mandates “patients who present to a hospital emergency department”… “must undergo an appropriate medical screening examination by a physician”… “to determine whether they have an emergency medical condition.”
This is nothing new and will continue until we have socialized medicine.
I’m guessing they this is all about money. Is this something seen in countries with socialized medicine?
The fact that “patient dumping” happens often enough for there to be a term for it infuriates me.
Yes, that was a shock to me also.
Need to force the vote on M4A.
This fact that this is even a topic shows that the physicians there lost their humanity and no longer qualified.
Imagine the same thing happens to childcare centre, the centre should face closure
Physicians have their humanity, but they can’t house the homeless in the ER. They will save their lives when they OD, get hit by a car, or something.