Re:Unpleasant Design
by bduerst on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:07PM
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You're being downvoted, but you're right. According to the EMTL Act, both private and public emergency rooms can't turn away or delay care to patients that need it.
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The EMTALA was a policy decision we made through our representatives (it doesn't have anything to do with the Hippocratic Oath).
For the same reasons the EMTALA passed, we should be killing sit/lie bills - and hostile designs like this - whenever we see them. Park benches are about the absolute lowest form of safety net you can imagine for a night's sleep, just as ER treatment without asking questions is for health. It's so far below the bare minimum that it would be repugnant to deny it.