The recent mountain-from-molehill "controversy" trumpeted by Fox News and the Rush Limbaughs, Glenn Becks, and Sean Hannitys of the world is the alleged "patient dumping" scheme orchestrated for the University of Chicago Medical Center by that evil mastermind of socialism, Michelle Obama.
Which got me thinking about "patient dumping" and emergent care in general.
It has been a long-standing pillar of medical law that emergency rooms are required to treat all patients, regardless of ability to pay. Service cannot be refused.
My question: Since this practice and belief clearly falls within the "to each according to need" philosophy, why aren't conservative pundits everywhere strenuously attacking it as yet another expression of creeping Socialism?
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