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Sprokes@jlai.lu 4 weeks agoI watched a documentary about the situation of health care in the US and I think it was Texas’s gouvernement who was saying that hospitals are required to give you the health care needed in the case of an emergency.
YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 weeks ago
This is broadly true, though there can be some wiggle room in the exact definitely of “immediate life-saving care” depending on where you end up, though. In particular, a condition like appendicitis that will inevitably lead to a crisis may be turned away until it actually becomes one, even if that makes things riskier and costlier for everyone involved.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Right, sometimes you need to be actively dying to receive care, not just at risk of dying.