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Wimp. You go to hospitals for paper cuts and look for foreigners to provide statute law for it to be done free. Be less pathetic.
Sooo...you're admitting you didn't know what you were talking about?
I know exactly what I am taking about. You are asking me to find a statute that obliges free treatment of papercuts. And that's pathetic. You get free treatment of emergencies - be grateful for that.
Better still, stop free-loading and buy insurance.
So by redirecting the argument onto this un-important matter, are you dodging the fact you were wrong about taxpayers footing the bill for patients who can't pay?
Its you were on about paper cuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act... requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.
If its an emergency you get it for free. If you had a charge on your credit card, your "charitable" doctors are having a laugh.
It didn't say you get service for free, it said they are required to treat you if you are IN NEED.
I wanted to let you hang yourself here, because I actually DO KNOW exactly how hospitals treat you with no insurance since I've been in that boat many times. So congratulations on sounding like an ignoramus.
FACT: I have an untreated inguinal hernia. I went into the hospital and they didn't treat it saying "its not an emergency until its strangulated, so we can't do anything."
FACT: I also have a torn rotator cuff. One time I went to the Emergency Room because I couldn't get it back into socket. They took me in after about an hour, popped it back in, then gave me a bill for about $3000.
Don't talk about how healthcare works in America, unless you want to sound like a total asshole.