They are trying to come back with this tiny loophole being like, oh, but there are some federal funds that could possibly on the state level, you know, what they're actually pointing to is that Ronald Reagan, in the 1980s, the United States passed a law that said if you walk into an ER, a hospital cannot refuse you care if you can't afford it, if you're not covered. Because we decided that we wanted to be a civilized country, that if someone gets hit by a car and they're bleeding out, that a doctor isn't checking like for their insurance coverage before they go rush into an emergency room like that. (08:20–08:35)
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Asserts that a law from the 1980s mandates hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of insurance status.
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