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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup.  Proven in black and white - when you scroll down from what @GOP highlighted in yellow it CLEARLY STATES that it does NOT apply to illegal aliens.   Republicans are LYING about the reasons for the shutdown.  If the Republicans are in the right about all of this then why are they telling PROVEN, UNDISPUTABLE LIES?

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The fact remains:  illegal aliens currently receive free medical care in the United States, where they cannot be refused treatment at any emergency room at any time.

Illegal aliens receive emergency Medicaid under a law passed in 1986.  "Hospitals can get federal Medicaid funding to reimburse them for emergency services they are required to provide to low-income individuals, [b]regardless of immigration status,[/b] which includes undocumented people," Mr Cuello told us.

"Emergency Medicaid is very temporary coverage for the medical services provided at all emergency rooms, often just one service on one day, but not necessarily ongoing health insurance enrollment, like a U.S. citizen can pay for, or receives by qualifying for Medicaid," he added.[/quote]

I just want to make it very clear that this Trumper's objection is that undocumented people are not refused treatment in emergency rooms.

I am trying to let that sink in. It sounds like PP is not only against the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act that has been law since Ronald Reagan, but the idea of public hospitals are treating immigrants in emergency rooms as well.

PP would have hospitals refuse the undocumented emergency care. Just when I think people can't go any lower...[/quote]

Yes.

When I hear people advocate for this, I always ask them how they expect -- in detail -- this to play out.

A grandmother looking after a grandchild who goes into a wheezing asthma attack. She doesn't have the insurance card for some reason, say that the mother just dropped her off while going to the store. Now the grandmother either calls an ambulance or rushes the child in her own car to the ER door. What happens?

Do we have security guards holding the door shut while the grandmother is screaming and clawing at it, her grandchild going blue at her feet? DO we let them inside the door so the child doesn't die outside, but at least under a roof?

What about car accidents? They drag you out from a car crash, but your wallet fell out, or is in the pants they cut off to wedge you out, or whatever. You have broken bones, a head bleed, you need surgery. Do the paramedics call it in and be told to leave you to die on the side of the road, since they can't find proof of insurance, or do we have another scene with the guards holding the ER bay doors shut? How exactly does this play out?

Of course there are going to be non-emergency complaints that could, in theory, play out in some way not quite so egregious. But how do the non-emergency cases play out?

And what about borderline emergency cases? Your father, or grandfather, or uncle, or whomever is shoveling snow and falls down. His chest hurts, and he is sweaty. Does the neighbor who finds him wait until the house can be searched to find the insurance card? How exactly does this work, again?

Maybe your dad (in this new world) always keeps his insurance card on him for exactly this reason. What about your nephew at the pool, who hits his head diving off the board? Do you want a lifeguard earching nearby cars before calling an ambulance?[/quote]

So I’m a new poster, and I’m not steeped in the details, and I accordingly do not have a side though if I were to, but just as a value judgment, I’d prefer a scenario where undocumented immigrants get some reasonable quantum of healthcare even on the public dime to one where being undocumented means no medical care. With that wind-up, let me ask: are you sure that this is how it works? When I was a kid, my parents did not always have health insurance, and they went to the ER on more than one occasion. My recollection is that they were admitted and that we had to apply for what I believe the hospital called “charity” if we were to get out of paying a massive bill that we couldn’t afford. That fact, coupled with some awareness that hospitals have an ethical duty to stabilize all comers without regard to ability to pay, makes me doubt that the scenario you’ve described is plausible, but I’m open to contradiction if you actually know what you’re talking about (and maybe you do!)[/quote]

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