On Feb 18, 3:37*pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
(Non-English-speaking moron) wrote:
That 'panacea' of Socialized medicine coming to USA? Royal Darwin
Hospital "shocking", AMA says (NT Australia news)
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"...The situation was so bad this week that two beds were crammed into
many emergency department cubicles, admitted patients were left in
corridors and nurses were running into the waiting room to treat
people....."
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Sounds like Phoenix, Arizona! *(Only here, we get billed for the
privilege, and they won't even treat you if you don't have insurance.)

Rubbish. You are just broadcasting your gullibility by swallowing the
anti American bias that infests Usenet.

All Americans over age 65 and disabled Americans qualify for
Medicare
where the US government pays health providers direct for health care
of
the elderly and disabled.
In addition:

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/EMTALA/

Overview

"In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor
Act

(EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of
ability to pay. Section 1867 of the Social Security Act imposes
specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer
emergency services to provide a medical screening examination (MSE)
when a request is made for examination or treatment for an emergency
medical condition (EMC), including active labor, regardless of an
individual's ability to pay. Hospitals are then required to provide
stabilizing treatment for patients with EMCs. If a hospital is unable
to stabilize a patient within its capability, or if the patient
requests, an appropriate transfer should be implemented...."
In addition:

Besides state MEDICAID health care iis available to the poor and many
comparable
individual state laws which are broader in scope than the federal
EMTALA, preceded EMTALA

Living in Arizona you might find the excerpt from the article pasted
below applicable:

Forced Medical Treatment for Illegals

"EMTALA provides uninsured people with medical care in hospital
emergency rooms. The coersive EMTALA obligates hospitals to treat the
uninsured but does not pay for that care. EMTALA requires each
emergency room to treat anyone who enters with an "emergency"
associated with cough, headache, hangnail, cardiac arrest, permeated
lumbar disc, drug addiction, alcohol overdose, gunshot injury,
automobile trauma, HIV-positive infection, mental problem, or
personality disorder. The definition of emergency is flexible and
vague and includes almost any condition requiring mandatory care....."

Google could take you to the article in its entirety but notice I used
the word "might" because your proven venomous anti American bias
prevents you from having any interest in reality.