Thankfully it’s still illegal for a hospital to deny anyone life-saving emergency care tho, so it’s good for people to know they have this option to not give their name.
It’s embarrassing that we aren’t delivering care even just at the level of care of emergency Medicaid as a universal anymore though.
My name is “John Doe.” No, I don’t have any ID of any kind, sorry.
I’m sure they’ll get around to just denying life-saving emergency care right at the point of service.
Thankfully it’s still illegal for a hospital to deny anyone life-saving emergency care tho, so it’s good for people to know they have this option to not give their name.
It’s embarrassing that we aren’t delivering care even just at the level of care of emergency Medicaid as a universal anymore though.
What about the hospital pumping the guy with morphine and then saying, “I dunno! He had a heart attack!”.