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Originally Posted by mithrilG60
No universal access to health care is a basic human right in the all of the developed world.... I'm left to wonder why the US joined the developed world yet?  |
Heart transplants, liposuction, knee replacements, and elective health care is a human right?
In the US, Federal law gives everyone the right to emergency care, regardless of your ability to pay. The law entitles you to three things: screening, emergency care and appropriate transfers. A hospital must provide "stabilizing care" for a patient with an emergency medical condition. The hospital must screen for the emergency and provide the care without inquiring about your ability to pay. Hospitals cannot transfer patients until their condition has been stabilized. So in an emergency everyone has equal access to care. If its not an emergency, there are plenty of free clinics and reduced cost facilities around. My daughter chooses to not have insurance against her mothers and I advice. A year ago she needed a procedure done that was going to cost well over a grand. She did some checking around, filled out some papers waited a few months (not life threatening) and got it done for 2 payments of $159. All legal, performed by the same facility that said it was over a grand months earlier.
Chas