“Good ideas, every one, and implementing even one of them would bring down the cost of health care by itself.
The only one I have a quibble with is #1”
I don’t. My wife has two diabetic children. My brother died of throat cancer in the 1990s. I have spent a lot of time in south Florida ERs. One reason any visit to one is a minimum of 4 hours is the amount of illegals who treat it like a primary care doctor. There’s nothing the staff or hospital can do about it either. They are required by law to see them no matter how frivolous the cause seems to be. We all pay for them. If the other solutions were implemented maybe the illegals could afford to go to a walk in urgent care clinic. I guarantee you most of them would figure out something else to do if the hospital could refuse them without insurance or means to pay.
That's not true (at least under Federal law, I don't know if there is a Florida law that applies). EMTALA applies only to emergency treatment, and a hospital's obligations under EMTALA end once a patient is "stable."