What is not covered by EMTALA in emergency rooms?

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Wednesday March 28, 2012 · 12:40 PM PDT

2012/03/28 · 12:40

I found a few specific examples of medical problems that are not covered by EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, discussed in Angie's diary):

A normal pregnancy delivery. In a case reviewed by courts, EMTALA did not cover the hospital stay.
Opioid withdrawal
fever, elevated white blood cell count and a possible abscess

I also found a 2011 Washington State Medical Association proposal that had a massive list of "non-emergent" conditions that they say should not be covered under EMTALA. Including:

Visual Loss
Cardiac dysrrhythmias (Not Otherwise Specified)
Hypoglycemic coma
pneumonia (Pneumococcal)

In addition, even if you are covered under EMTALA, your care is not paid for by the government. The hospital can and will bill you for the full price. The area where hospitals do lose money is with indigent people that they cannot track down. Which is the basis for most complaint about EMTALA.

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If you have more examples of non-treated conditions -- especially links from reliable sources or hospital documents -- please add them. Let's get some real examples of people who have been refused treatment down.

Top 3 Reasons I support voting for Santorum

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Friday February 24, 2012 · 7:49 AM PST

2012/02/24 · 07:49

Apparently kossacks are united in their opposition to Operation Hilarity. I'm here to say that some of us think it's a good idea and about bloody time to take the fight back. Why?

1. Airing their lunacy will neuter it. This primary fight is dragging the fundamentalist crazies into the limelight, exposing their actual views and policies – for so long hidden behind the scenes. They've finally managed to force their way onto our screens and are airing their laundry list of regressive desires – putting women back in the bedroom and kitchen, shuttering gays, xenophobic racism – right out in public. This. Is. Fantastic.

Mainstream republicans have been ignorant of the fundamentalist character for too long. Now they are being forced to watch the truth come out in undeniable bloody color on national TV, YouTube, blogs, and social media. They're disgusted and it's generating a big pushback. The more it's aired, the more they'll push back.

The longer Santorum is viable, the stronger the reaction will get.

Some people think it's better to keep this stuff hidden, that it's too strong for voters to hear about, that it might poison the debate. Hogwash. It's truth, it needs to be set free, and when it's set free, the people will see it and wish they could look away.

2. Rick Santorum will never get elected president. This is a country that was founded on the separation of church and state. The US will never elect a truly theocratic president. What are you, afraid of armageddon?

sbwoodside

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Friday October 30, 2009 · 12:05 PM PDT

2009/10/30 · 12:05

Last week Nancy Pelosi was health-care Jesus. And the progressive caucus were gods. They were actually behaving like proper democrats! They were refusing to vote for a watered-down bill! They were our idols! And now, they've both screwed us over.

sbwoodside

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 6:01 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 18:01

Here's another information graphic tribute to the "Simple Explanation" talk given by Christopher Hayes. I was inspired by Nicholas Beaudrot's flowchart but decided to take a slightly different tack, and show the # of people taking each option by the thickness of lines, and highlight those taking the public option in red.

This is licenced CC-BY-SA, so feel free to use it wherever youlike. If you have updates to the numbers or suggestions for improvements, I'd love to have them.

sbwoodside

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Wednesday May 20, 2009 · 11:05 AM PDT

2009/05/20 · 11:05

Mr. President, I helped elect you

Mr. President, you are the greatest

Mr. President, you have done so much, in so little time

Mr. President, you are better than Machiavelli and Sun Tzu combined

Poll

21 votes Show Results

Our President, Barack Hussein Obama II

21 votes Vote Now!

Our President, Barack Hussein Obama II

I have faith, he will fix our wrongs

5 votes

I ask for more than he delivers

8 votes

Plywood Violin

8 votes

The Bible supports torture (updated)

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Friday May 01, 2009 · 1:30 PM PDT

2009/05/01 · 13:30

I was shocked to see that religious christians support torture in greater numbers than others. It got me thinking. Why would christians, especially the fundamentalists, support torture? It goes against everything that Jesus would say. WWJD? Not torture!

Unfortunately, it turns out that the Bible itself contains numerous passages encouraging the faithful to torture their enemies.

sbwoodside

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Wednesday April 22, 2009 · 11:29 PM PDT

2009/04/22 · 23:29

A diarist wrote a very well organized position on why torture should not be prosecuted. I disagree with him on virtually every point. He says that it is politically inexpedient, I say it is morally necessary. He appeals to the past, I say we live in the present. He says torture in US prisons negates torture by the CIA, I say both must end.

Poll

33 votes Show Results

Who should be prosecuted

33 votes Vote Now!

Who should be prosecuted

Just the lawyers who wrote the memos

0 votes

The Bush administration

24 votes

The line workers who performed the torture

2 votes

No one

6 votes

I don't know/I can't decide.

1 vote

Polls: 37-57% support torture

sbwoodside

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 9:19 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 21:19

This torture story is still going on, hasn't even begun. I was shocked over the weekend to find how many people here on dkos don't believe anything should be done (update: if you don't believe, read comments below). I truly, sincerely hope that they simply don't understand. Perhaps they could read my previous diary on my analysis of the 2nd torture memo. Perhaps they are changing their minds.

To me the most disturbing news is that many Americans still support torture. I can only believe the polls:

sbwoodside

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Sunday April 19, 2009 · 8:18 PM PDT

2009/04/19 · 20:18

Many others here have written about the abhorrent statements made by the Obama administration about how they plan to follow up (or not follow up) on the release of the so-called torture memos. But what I haven't seen so far is an analysis of the memos themselves. Perhaps it's because they make for some very disturbing reading. They describe the torture in graphic detail. It's disgusting. But I think it's important for us to trace the tortured logic that Bybee, Bradbury, etc. used to try to justify their actions. Because their so-called logic is frighteningly clear and yet, at the same time, it is so obviously wrong, on so many levels. This has been very difficult to read, and to write, but I feel that it must be done.

I'm going to focus on just one point, which is how they "justified" the waterboarding in the memo of May 10, 2005 (46 pages) which is available from the ACLU website.

I should warn you now: this is fairly long, and very disturbing.

sbwoodside

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 8:24 PM PDT

2009/03/17 · 20:24

Original cartoon by myself, licensed under CC-BY-SA-2.0... click for larger version.

Dkos requires filler. So here are some random quotes. Bender said: "Ah, lets face it: Comedy's a dead art form. Now, tragedy... That's funny!" Nietzsche said: "God is dead". Malaclypse The Younger said: Fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord.

Going John Galt (cartoon)

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Monday March 16, 2009 · 10:50 AM PDT

2009/03/16 · 10:50

Original cartoon. CC-BY-SA-2.0

Text: I decided to go Galt. I used to be a hobo... but I've withdrawn all of my creative forces from society. ... now I work at AIG.

Filler text to get to 300 characters: fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord fnord

Cartoon - AIG: The value of a good name

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Saturday March 14, 2009 · 9:26 PM PDT

2009/03/14 · 21:26

It's a cartoon. I just drew it after reading the FP story about AIG's bonuses. Poor AIG.

Apparently I need to add more lines of text. Well, here we go. La la la. I don't know what to write. I drew this cartoon using the following equipment: a pen; a piece of paper (it was nice paper). Then I scanned it. Then I added the grayscale washes in photoshop. Then I uploaded it to flickr. Then I posted it here. Now I'm writing this text. Is that enough?

Update: fixed size, and made the font easier to read.

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