Do people 'deserve' universal health care?

[Stealth694]

Insurance is needed, but not so much to "take care of us", but to keep hospitals open, how many hospitals get ER admisions who cannot pay? But because of the St Mary's law the hospital must help them? Dead beats, homeless, unemployed, when people need medical help they don't worry about bills... A govt health insurance bill is more for the hospitals than the people.

[Thorne]

Insurance is needed, but not so much to "take care of us", but to keep hospitals open, how many hospitals get ER admisions who cannot pay? But because of the St Mary's law the hospital must help them? Dead beats, homeless, unemployed, when people need medical help they don't worry about bills... A govt health insurance bill is more for the hospitals than the people.

Perhaps, but the people still have to pay for it, whether they want it or not. It's basically forced charity donations. Or penalties for not donating to charity.

[steelish]

But because of the St Mary's law the hospital must help them?

St. Mary's school of Law?

Or do you mean to say the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal act passed by Congress in 1986.