[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.

[bkopto]

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.

There are situations where, if the ED physician is part of a private group, contracted with the hospital to provide ED services, he will not be paid. The hospital won't pay his lost professional fee; the patient won't or cannot pay it, and the pt is not eligible for state aid.

The MD takes the loss. He/she cannot write if off on his taxes; he cannot 1099 the patient.

BUT, you can be your last dollar that said patient will sue that doctor if a mistake is made. That pt never paid anyone a dime, but is allowed to sue.

[CapnJack]

“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.”

Then it is us who pay for them out of increased premiums and inflated prices and such. But “technically” it is a form a slavery to mandate that someone has to do some type of service for someone else who does not pay for that service.

Medical care is a product, like anything else and is not something special, otherwise it would have been outlined in the Constitution or an Amendment would have been passed to the Constitution to say so.