Understanding the ACA Arguments

[Doug Edlin]

So let me see if I understand the argument about Congress revoking the 
Emergency Medical Treatment Act.  Imagine a gravely injured victim of a 
car accident is brought to an emergency room.  The health care 
professional on call that evening determines that this person is not in 
the system.  So the nurse or physician leaves the accident victim to die 
on the sidewalk outside the hospital.  That's what we should prefer as 
an outcome?

Doug

On 3/21/2012 2:52 PM, Rick Duncan wrote:
> You do not need an individual mandate to deal with the free rider problem.
>
> You could provide that anyone who does not sign on to Obamacare by a 
> date certain will not be eligible for protection against pre-existing 
> conditions if he tries to sign up later on down the road.
>
> This regulates actual health insurance activity, rather than 
> regulating non-action in the present based upon the prediction of 
> action in the future. Also, Congress could provide that hospitals are 
> not required to provide free care to anyone who is not in the system.
>
>
> Prof. Rick Duncan (Nebraska Law)
>
> See my recent paper on The Tea Party, federalism, and liberty at:
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=1984699
>
>
>
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-- 
Douglas E. Edlin
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Dickinson College
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
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