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A comment on Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health care?.

Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by shams93 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @10:35AM (#21878861)
They always find ways out of it I've gone nearly 18 years now without any access to healthcare is it ethical to be forced to fix a broken elbow with duct tape in the richest country in the world? I had to, even after Obamacare I still had 0 access and then was taxed to punish me for lack of access the government should provide access they take the majority of my income but where does it go certainly not for my healthcare
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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by fargle on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:14PM (#21879716)
Since 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital emergency room to treat an injury like a broken elbow regardless of ability to pay or whether you were insured. So in the richest country on earth you do not in fact, neither before nor after obamacare, need to use duct tape for a fracture.
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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by byoung2 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:23AM (#21879113)
I'm curious as to what circumstances caused you to have no access to healthcare? If your job doesn't provide it you can get it through an exchange (possibly with subsidies).
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