[Jim Noble]

US citizens and lawfully present persons of a US resident household shall be eligible for coverage as per the PPACA.

Great post (the good news first).

Are you planning to repeal EMTALA, and pass a Federal law to prevent enforcement of existing State laws which forbid denial of care for nonpayment?

[Brian Griffin]

“Are you planning to repeal EMTALA, and pass a Federal law to prevent enforcement of existing State laws which forbid denial of care for nonpayment?”

My Latest Suggested EMTALA (and Medicaid ER) Reform

FOR CARESEEKERS

To get care under the EMTALA or Medicaid for yourself or custodial child, the hospital might require you to
1. pay $100 in cash or by financial organization card accepted at the emergency care facility,
2. hand over your valid SNAP card and tender a matching valid domestic governmental picture ID,
3. hand over your valid domestic driver’s license,
4. hand over your valid US passport,
5. hand over your operable Apple or Samsung cellphone model listed by a current regulation issued by a Secretary of HHS, or
6. hand over a valid domestic governmental picture ID of yours and
a tender matching financial institution statement less than 70 days old showing a domestic governmental or employer direct deposit of at least $150, both for hospital photocopying and recordkeeping.

States might be allowed to authorize emergency care facilities to contemporaneously debit SNAP cards for EMTALA incidents.

Items handed over may be retained by the emergency care facility until retrieved within one month by the responsible party by paying $100, or more, for the care, plus a retrieval fee not exceeding $20 in a manner the facility accepts. Items not timely retrieved may be disposed of in a legally allowable manner.

NOTE: People can get the care they need, but only by paying $100, forfeiting an expensive cellphone, or going through the hassle of replacing a SNAP card or government picture ID.

FOR HOSPITALS

I would allow hospitals collect up to $1,000 per incident of EMTALA service from employers, with payment not in excess of $50 per week per employee concerned being due to any and all EMTALA providers and not for more than 100 weeks after service. Such payments on behalf of an employee would be considered to be a debt of the employee to the employer. Employers could collect back from employees and ex-employees (and require EMTALA incident employees to participate in an employer plan).