re: 'Universal' health care will NEVER work

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Because the emergency room model is incredibly expensive and inefficient?

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Which is why EMTALA needs to be gotten rid of.

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I agree EMTALA has tons of problems, but do you want a system where they check your insurance card as you are wheeled into the ED before they treat you?


I think Press Ganey has more to deal with it than anything. When you have a patient with a BS complaint come into the ED instead of doing the required medical screening exam and then kicking them out to see their PCP. But those patients will destroy the ratings of these ED docs and most hospitals have tied Press Ganey scores to physician pay.