EMTALA

Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates 0
- March 30, 2012
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading →
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Supreme Court & Health Care: Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates 0
- March 30, 2012
At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Continue reading →
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False Alternative: Forced Charity or “Let Them Die”0
- October 26, 2011
In a recent GOP debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer presented Ron Paul a false alternative: forced charity or letting an uninsured man die. Beth Haynes, MD. writes: “Our only options are not “Government Control or Let Them Die.” Restoring our freedom will Let Us Live.” Continue reading →
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Mitt Romney, mandatory health insurance, & the phony free-rider justification 0
- May 25, 2011
“[I]f the individual mandate’s purpose is to prevent free riders from shifting the cost of their emergency care to others, all it should require is … insurance to cover a trip to the emergency room. Instead, both RomneyCare and ObamaCare require everyone to be covered for numerous benefits going far beyond emergency care.” – Jeff Jacoby
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The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – – Forbes 0
- February 14, 2011
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.”
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EMTALA’s perverse incentives 0
- August 26, 2010
“911Doc” at DocsOntheWeb describes the harms of EMTALA: If you are unfamiliar with EMTALA or our take on it you can read about it here, but to be brief, EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate passed in 1986, which, de facto, has made it a crime to tell anyone ‘no’ in the ER. Because of […]
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