Steve_In_29
Semper Fi
You seriously misunderstand the meaning of a "Right" and are looking at it from an apparently millennial, socialistic viewpoint. "Education" and "police protection" are NOT "rights". They are simply services we expect from our society in exchange for our supporting it with taxes They are no more a "right" then is having roads or parks.Nonsensical non-sequitur.
Basic education is an American right.
Police protection in an American right.
Teachers and cops do not work for free.
Nor should our physicians.
Respectfully......the logic evades me.
When Ronald Reagan signed the EMTALA Act in 1986 it became an unfunded mandate.
Quite simply, Reagan established health care for 100% of Americans as a codified right.
How, oh how, have so many forgotten this law???
Google it. Fact-check me.
I am in health care consulting.
If a physician forgets or fails to abide the EMTALA law he or she can be imprisoned.
Health care, unequivocally, indesputably has been a right for 31 years since Reagan signed the law.
Affordable and accessable health care is therefore America's challenge.
Obamacare addresses our right to health care quite inadequately.
Graham-Cassidy makes us look like fools.
For someone that claims to work in healthcare you are lacking in your knowledge, as the EMTALA Act did NOT make health care a right in this Country either. It simply made it illegal for EMERGENCY ROOMS to turn away patients that couldn't pay. It also doesn't force the hospital to provide follow on care either, they simply have to stabilize the patient and then can send them on their way. There is also no prohibition preventing doctors in private practice from refusing to see patients who can't pay.
The EMTALA law has resulted in the closure of enumerable emergency rooms around the country as private (for profit) hospitals simply got out of the emergency medicine business. Since while the law said if they have an ER they have to take the patients, there is NO law that says they have to provide an ER at all. This has left the publicly funded hospitals (such as County hospitals) to pick up the slack and thus taking a further bite out of our tax dollars.