Emergency rooms (at least one's I've seen in Seattle and Los Angeles) have big signs all over the place informing people (in English and Spanish) that they cannot be turned away if they don't have insurance. Why would anyone buy insurance if this is the case?
Unless you are self employed you get the insurance your
employer provides.
Even if you have to buy it, it affords more convenient
care than you get shlepping into LA Co General, Parkland
or some other big inner city ER.
But anyway, the point is that we as a humane society aren’t
going to leave folks, fellow humans made in the likeness
of God, to die on the sidewalks for lack of care.
If we begin to do that, this won’t be my country anymore.
Hospitals exist for reasons beyond the profit motive.
“Emergency rooms (at least one’s I’ve seen in Seattle and Los Angeles) have big signs all over the place informing people (in English and Spanish) that they cannot be turned away if they don’t have insurance.”
Does anyone know the intent of that law? Is it to provide EMERGENCY CARE only- i.e, stabilize a heart attack patient, or does the law require that someone with a splinter cannot be turned away?
Seems to me this could be handled in triage....anyone not having EMERGENCY symptoms could be turned away.