Reagan may have signed it, but it was the Democrat House that created the act as part of the Reconciliation game with the Republican Senate.
theres a problem with this thinking....
you had Obamacare in place since 2009. Hospitals are still getting EMT visits and they are still not getting paid under ACA to cover these visits.
Hospitals may have gotten bit more money but it wasn't to cover those defects of EMTALA. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
Link please. Originally Posted by WTFACA is/was not meant to fund EMTALA. all it did was move somethings around and the hospitals took advantage of the ACA incentives which reduced some of EMTALA costs. complicated shit.
took some time to find it.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/arti...ZINE/303289881
http://www.cepamerica.com/news-resou...amacare-repeal