The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, was passed in 1986 as a federal anti-dumping law. It mandates “patients who present to a hospital emergency department”… “must undergo an appropriate medical screening examination by a physician”… “to determine whether they have an emergency medical condition.”
The fact that “patient dumping” happens often enough for there to be a term for it infuriates me.
Yes, that was a shock to me also.
Need to force the vote on M4A.