Today's report about the emergency room abuses in Ausin, TX was of course shocking. That 9 individuals could rack up 2700 ER visits in six years pushes the limits of credulity. Do these people have no life?
But then we begin to ask questions. Where are you going to take this story?
Well, of course we need nationalized health care to limit these abuses. Don't you see how broken the healthcare system is? The national evening news suggested controls to stop abuses so "legitimate" ER cases would get their due attention.
There is one reason these abuses happened, and it doesn't have to do with the 3 homeless people or the 7 mental people among the 9 "offenders"
In a word, the reason is EMTALA, the law that says persons presenting to ERs across the nation MUST be treated without regard to ability to pay. It is a federal regulation, an unfunded mandate from the national healthcare system.
Of course the healthcare system is broken. My only question is, who made it broke?
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