Let's say hypothetically one is stuck in a state with lousy medical care. What's to stop them from going somewhere else with better medical care and showing up at that emergency ward because they're "on vacation"?
I can just see a whole lot of low-income, low-health invaders showing up in the elite's local hospitals for medical care and Obamacare covering it.
good question
Let’s be clear about one thing: one of the inevitabilities about health care in the U.S. — and this has nothing to do with ObamaCare — is that there is little or no incentive for any hospital to have an emergency room. I expect the whole concept of an “emergency room” to either change dramatically or disappear completely from our society.
“I can just see a whole lot of low-income, low-health invaders showing up in the elite’s local hospitals for medical care and Obamacare covering it.”
I’ll tell you exactly where that leads: here in NJ we’ve closed hospitals (including the one in my town) because the law required them to treat illegal aliens. As the state gradually cut the “charity care reimbursement” for such care, the hospitals closed. In some cases they still function as a medical facitlity of some sort or other (long-term care or physical therapy, for example), but NOBODY is getting treatment without an appointment (after submitting the proper insurance documents, by the way).
I’ve used this example as a demonstration of how the state is winning it’s war on the Church; they have the power to tax the Catholic schools and hospitals out of existence (eliminating their competition). In NJ the state has been wildly successful...