So your saying that because it's law people should not be worried about Trampdeath and just go to emergency rooms and get treated and stick the hospitals with the bill???
That's already one of the reasons that health care is stratospherically expensive. Those that pay are covering those loses.
If we didn't infuse the military with $50 billion and start to cut every social service to pay for the Wall and give a tax break to those that can well afford to pay a higher tax, that could go a long way to freeing up moneys to subsidize less expensive costs to millions of poor Americans or retired Americans now on Medicaid/care to have more and better services for less money.
Right now there are medical services spread out among a huge array of networks from Planned Parenthood to Medicaid and that gives more options for those with limited money for medical services.
But as a Puke, you would like to see all of those services either shut down or scaled way back. That subsidizes the huge tax breaks for the wealthy and eliminates low cost medical services, forcing people in need to either go onto high cost trampdeath or go with no coverage at all. There will be no lowcost alternatives unless individual states fund them.
I'm sure a state like Illinois will be completely health-less and at the sheer mercy of trampdeath!
If trampdeath is even remotely feasible, why did is it not law yet?
Because even the republicans won't support it!!!! LoL
It's typical republicanism, help the rich and FUCK the poor!!!
The poor have no business being Americans anyway!!!!
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You're dreaming girl.
What's the cost of just a CAT scan?
What if you are in a car accident and neither of your are insured?
Your argument is pitifully republican.
An emergency brain surgery and follow-up because you slipped in the bathtub could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
You think you'll save that because that was your choice to not have insurance and put the money in a slush fund?
Again, you're dreaming.
What a weak republican argument.
Trump is trying to improve on the mousetrap, that just doesn't happen. Some things are just hard to engineer from the ground up and improve on them without using a lot of the original design.
When researchers took a red blood cell and cut a cross section. Then they took the most sophisticated CAD and designed an object to flow through veins and do what a red blood cell does, guess what, the researchers came up with the same exact shape!!! And no, it wasn't because god designed it!!! LoL
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Like I said, that's a pitiful republican thought process.
I have insurance, so let's all just have the choice, F*CK all those that don't actually have a choice! Got a job, we'll get a better job with insurance!
I'm a vet, I'm provided for, F*CK all the ones that haven't done as well as me!
Get rid of abortion, let all those low life girls have unwanted babies, otherwise, who am I gonna rent my roach infested rentals to???
Not everyone has or will have the luxury of having those personal republican choices to make for themselves.
BUT you have that luxury so F*CK everyone else!!!
"Take care of thy neighbor"....., oh wait, I'm pretty sure I just made that up!?!
After all, I've got to live next to him, and tomorrow it might be you!!!
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The EMTALA does not address general healthcare issues. It requires all ERs to screen and stabilize real emergency medical conditions (ie life is at risk.) All they are required to do is stabilize the patient before transferring them to a public hospital. So, a case of flu, a minor burn, a sprained wrist, etc. is not covered.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires anyone coming to an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay, but since its enactment in 1986 has remained an unfunded mandate.

Since it is unfunded, the private ER if free to pursue the patient for unpaid services.

It hardly ensures availability of healthcare, just real emergency care.

The EMTALA does not address general healthcare issues. It requires all ERs to screen and stabilize real emergency medical conditions (ie life is at risk.) All they are required to do is stabilize the patient before transferring them to a public hospital. So, a case of flu, a minor burn, a sprained wrist, etc. is not covered.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires anyone coming to an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay, but since its enactment in 1986 has remained an unfunded mandate.

Since it is unfunded, the private ER if free to pursue the patient for unpaid services.

It hardly ensures availability of healthcare, just real emergency care.

What you don't seem to understand is that it is not about "I have mine, screw you.", as I have pointed out one the Obamacare expansion of Medicaid was not simply about the poor, a family making a 100K a year should be able to purchase Health insurance. The increase in premiums and higher deductibles that accompanied Obamacare have made it almost impossible for many people to access healthcare, somehow you and most dems fail to grasp that a family paying about $8000 for their insurance and then having to pay another $6500 for their deductible may not have real access to healthcare at all because it becomes even less obtainable to them than not having any insurance at all, at least they would still have that money that they spent on premiums in case little Johnny breaks his arm, a family on a budget would have to pay the premiums and then another 6500 before they would see one dime come back to them. No wonder the insurance companies went for this deal because many families will never see the first dime paid out by the insurance companies, what they did not count on was so many young healthy people choosing to pay the penalty rather than purchasing insurance as mandated by our government. This fact put a big whole in their revenue streams that were to go to cover preexisting conditions and the additional coverages mandated by Obamacare.

When you say "I have mine, screw you", you are so dead wrong, just as you believe that the government can not only fix our lives but has a mandate to do so, there is a whole opposing train of thought that feels like the government can't really fix much and that we are better off without them meddling into our lives and our country's economy, that the more government takes from our economy in the form of taxes and debt that the less economic opportunity there will be for all of us..... How is that so hard for democrats to understand, that if through regulation, taxing, and fiscal policy our government creates an environment that makes it difficult to start or grow businesses in this country then there will be fewer start ups and more businesses will leave this country just as we have experienced over the last 30 years resulting in less opportunity for the average person trying to get ahead in life to do so? I guess that you somehow miss the fact that China's economy has been growing at rates 4 to 5 times faster than ours and that with growth rates between 3 and 4 percent that even with lower taxes that the government will actually be collecting more revenues in a 10 year window.