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Any homeless person can walk into an ER and get care. What will happen to the bills?

Effectively it is no cost care for those who are sufficiently poor.

Cool - that sounds a bit like our NHS.

You also said "What will happen to the bills?" - what does that mean?

Cheers Jon

Some of the bills are just written off as bad debt. Essentially thrown away. But in many cases the hospital back office will work to get indigent patients enrolled in Medicaid and then send the bills to the state government.

Socialized medicine with extra steps and 500 middlemen all skimming off the top

It's someone looking at the EMTALA requirement for emergency departments to provide stabilization without regard to ability to pay without also realizing that the US has public health insurance for the medically indigent.

There are still a lot of low-income patients that are not covered by medicaid

They mean providing care to poor people.