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RobinMask (Offline)
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04-04-2011, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
Feel free to look up Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your disdain for America is well-known, but don't spread untruths.
Yes, but isn't that only for emergency care? And how does an 'emergency' get defined? I know the healthcare has been reformed of late, so my information may be out of date, but I heard that people get turned away all the time for various injuries/sicknesses for having the wrong insurance or their insurance not covering certain things. . .

I mean there's been cases of people holding up hospitals, and people going without meds/treatment, and I think it might have been you (sorry if it wasn't!) who posted a thread a while back criticising how many people couldn't get dental care and sometimes had to wait in huge queues for charities to give them work for free.

If an American citizen broke a leg or was giving birth or needed drugs for a rare/severe disease, and didn't have insurance, would they really not get turned away? Would they get the treatment they needed?