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Publication Date: July 2007
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): John S. O'Shea
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Health care; EMTALA; overregulation; uncompensated care
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act makes the hospitals and doctors that provide emergency care to the uninsured less able and increasingly less willing to provide such care. A system that emphasizes personal freedom and expands private health care coverage, driven by free-market principles of consumer choice and competition, will yield much better value.