Yes it’s part of the healthcare insanity with the result being that any American hospital cannot turn away ANYONE in the world who shows up with an emergency or patient in labor.
It was meant to prevent dumping non-paying patients from fancy hospitals to the inner city and such. But instead has become a lever for the illegals and anchor babies. The unintended consequences of this law need to be cleaned up.
Wasn’t Mooschelle Obama’s fake hospital job in Chicago to cherry pick patients, or something illegal like that?
I think conservatives should get most of the blame for those policies. As I pointed out, it was Reagan that signed it into law, with all the easily predictable negative consequences.
Some conservatives seem to want it both ways - they don’t want to come across as heartless, so they pass those laws, but at the same time they don’t want to mandate that all adults carry health insurance.
In other words they want to buy the compassion “halo” at no cost.
In some ways the liberals are more consistent in this regard. They mandated certain coverage but they also mandated that everyone have health insurance to help pay for it.
You might say it’s not constitutional to force people to buy something they don’t want. I agree.
But at the same time, is it constitutional to force a hospital or a doctor to offer services for nothing?
If you mandate one you must mandate the other. And if you get rid of one you must get rid of the other.