[CapnJack]

"Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions."

Right there is your UNCONSTITUTIONAL law that should be challenged in the SCOTUS. That "law" is tantamount to forced slavery ... PERIOD!

If the doctors and/or hospital want to treat these people out of the kindness of their hearts or make that a policy of the hospital, then no problem. But forced "charity" work is slavery unless it is community service that you agree to after being convicted of a crime.

[aruanan]

If the doctors and/or hospital want to treat these people out of the kindness of their hearts or make that a policy of the hospital, then no problem. But forced "charity" work is slavery unless it is community service that you agree to after being convicted of a crime.

There is no one in the entire setup that is forced by that law to work without remuneration. The hospital may have to chalk it up against its account that pays for indigent cases, but there is nobody, from the check-in person to the emergency room doctors, who is going without being paid or giving up a portion of his salary to treat such a person.