[bayourod]

"If I show-up at an emergency room with no documents, can I get free help? "

They may send you a bill, but unless you're conspicuously wealthy and the bill is in the tens of thousands of dollars they are not likely to pursue it.

Just tell them you don't have the ability to pay if you don't.

The questions for immigrants relate only to the hospital getting reimbursed, not to whether they treat the patient.

[goldstategop]

Yep. Thanks to EMTALA, hospitals are obliged to treat every emergency case regardless of ability to pay. Ideally, it should cover only life-threatening cases. No person wants to see an innocent person die for lack of funds and life-saving treatment should never be contingent on ability to pay. That being said, its clear EMTALA is being abused and taken advantage of by illegal aliens to obtain free care in cases that don't fall under any definition of an emergency. And the hospital has to pass on the costs. And if they don't, they have to close their doors. Our politicians think medical care is exempt from the laws of economics. Au contraire as we've seen in the pressure exerted by illegals clogging hospitals and clinics in border states.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)