'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
Many of the patients here are dealing with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to get access to basic preventive care. This is part of why it matters to make healthcare accessible: It's more expensive to not make it accessible.Ye olde "the horse was lost because the horseshoe was lost because a nail was lost" principle. It's not just that someone has an advanced illness, if they die and now their kid needs additional resources from the welfare system, the rest of us are paying for it.According to this piece, under EMTALA -- he Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act passed in the 1980s -- it's not illegal to treat undocumented immigrants.