Unfortunately, they are legally allowed to let you die. The notorious cases are women with ectopic pregnancies who find themselves at Catholic hospitals (sometimes because that's the only local option), but poor and uninsured Americans are also dying because an emergency room isn't cancer treatment, and it may get you a prescription for blood pressure medicine, but you still have to pay for the pills. For that matter, few if any doctors (or most of the rest of us) would argue that it's unethical for a doctor to spend their time doing facelifts instead of having specialized in emergency medicine, infectious disease, or cardiology.
It's more "get insurance, you schmuck. Otherwise, if you do wind up in the hospital, you'll bankrupt your family."
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Date: 2012-07-27 03:15 pm (UTC)It's more "get insurance, you schmuck. Otherwise, if you do wind up in the hospital, you'll bankrupt your family."