This is not exactly correct.
No one can be denied life saving assistance. Those who can not afford care have always had various programs to fall back on to help them get the care they need.
What has changed is that those who CAN afford to pay for their own care no longer have to, and instead they can demand that others pay for their care instead (through insurance policies that they only get after they are sick and cant be denied or charged more for)
In fact, through taxation they are now goaded into accepting “Obamacare or the highway” even if they did not wish to be quite so burdensome.
“No one can be denied life saving assistance.”
False.
Cancer treatment rarely qualifies as emergency treatment under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act since cancer normally lacks acute symptoms.
emergency medical condition:
“A medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in —
placing the health of the individual (or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child) in serious jeopardy,
serious impairment to bodily functions, or
serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part, or
“With respect to a pregnant woman who is having contractions —
that there is inadequate time to effect a safe transfer to another hospital before delivery, or
that the transfer may pose a threat to the health or safety of the woman or her unborn child.”
Was probably eligible for Medicaid. If not, then that person has enough money to buy health insurance. Probably needed a new car or some other “priority”.
“No one can be denied life saving assistance. Those who can not afford care have always had various programs to fall back on to help them get the care they need.”
Several years ago I had an alcoholic chain smoker as a renter. She made her cash, I found out later, by selling her EBT card and selling drugs.
She had throat cancer and the taxpayers had paid for multiple operations and chemo treatment. At no time did she ever consider quitting smoking.
My thinking was why are the taxpayers paying for constant treatment if she will not do the simplest thing under her control to help herself? She was only in the house six months and I literally had to fumigate it.