The wreck of the good ship, EMTALA

From Edwin Leap, MD:
EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, was passed in 1986.  For those who aren’t familiar with yet another acronym, EMTALA is a federal law that was enacted to keep poor, uninsured patients from being ‘dumped’ on indigent-care hospitals, or any other facility, for financial reasons.  Although it was a [...]