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.”
This is nothing new and will continue until we have socialized medicine.
I’m guessing they this is all about money. Is this something seen in countries with socialized medicine?