Texas emergency rooms - for real

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this is a letter from the buzzflash mailbag

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/03/10/mai03171.html

Subj: TX Emergency Rooms

As of November 1, 2003, Texas emergency rooms will no longer be required to treat sick children or adults if they have no money or insurance, except in cases of imminent death, and they cannot be sued if this policy results in death. On the night of 10/15 - 10/16 the Clear Lake Regional Hospital turned away a woman with a baby running a 103.4 degree temperature and referred them to us, a 501 c3 non-profit medical/dental clinic which is struggling to stay in operation. We learned today that the Texas Department of Health would not fund us again this year ( they never have) even though we are the only 501 c3 non profit medical/dental clinic in operation among a population of over 200,000 people in a Federally designated medically underserved region. This region is medically underserved because the people cannot afford medical care.

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