HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (click here) today released new data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample -- the largest, all-payer emergency department database in the United States. The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample is designed to help public health experts, policymakers, health care administrators, researchers, journalists and others find the data they need to answer questions about care that occurs in U.S. hospital emergency departments.
These data indicate that uninsured persons accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 120 million hospital-based emergency department visits in 2006....
It is true. I am so excited. I thought I was at opposite sides of the spectrum from Regressives. Seriously. At least there is some common ground to begin 'healing' the huge void of the Regressive agenda and the majority of decent Americans.
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) (click title to entry - thank you)
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.,,,
This ACT must have begun at the pleading of the ProLife Movement. I am deeply moved by their dedicate to 'getting them born.' It provides NO Pre-natal care or Early Child Care, but, then there is Planned Parenthood and Head Start, so I guess the Democrats found some needs besides, "Gettin' 'em born."
