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PP, I think you missed the thread. Do you know how to click on the post to expand the full thread?

A prior poster was discussing EMTALA, which guarantees medical stabilization at ERs regardless of insurance. (This is what you experienced, and it is the current law of the land.)

Another poster noted that Trump was essentially trying to revoke EMTALA, so that immigrants could be denied any medical care in the US, including at ERs.

My post was in response to that. If we get rid of EMTALA, how [b]would[/b] that, play out, especially as true emergencies are often chaos?

How do YOU think it would play out if those protections were not there for you and your family?[/quote]

I’m the poster I think you’re addressing (i.e., the one who said I didn’t have a side and grew up with my often uninsured parents sometimes needing care at the ER). You’re right that u missed the EMTALA discussion, but is it really correct that trump is trying to do EMTALA? EMTALA was, as I understand it, an unfunded mandate; I don’t think it have funding to hospitals or anything like that. Guess I don’t see how it’s germane to this conversation. [/quote]

DP...  The point of EMTALA is that when someone shows up with a medical emergency, you treat them.  You don't do a Soviet-style "you vill show me your papers" because that slows things down and costs people lives.  Treat those who need it first, and if later it turns out they can't pay the bill, reimburse the ER.

This reminds me of something that happened to me before EMTALA - I hurt my hand badly and had a couple of broken bones, the hand swelled up like a balloon and I was in a lot of pain.  I went to the ER and they took care of me.  I also gave them my info at the time but due to some snafu in hospital billing they didn't process it through my insurance, and I also never got a bill.  Maybe because I had a hard time filling out the paperwork legibly because I had this big swollen painful balloon hand full of broken bones.  Instead, several months later I had a collections agency coming after me.  It took a bit of sorting out to resolve.  I'm happy to have paid and to have insurance to cover it but by the same token I'm glad they took care of my hand.   But real life is messy and doctors and medical staff should be allowed to focus on emergencies as their priority and not be hassling people for paperwork as their priority.  Other countries don't operate that way, and neither should we.  I'm thankful for EMTALA.[/quote]

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