Twenty years ago, in the midst of a multi-day labor with my son, I asked the labor and delivery (L&D) nurse when I might expect to finally deliver. She smiled, squeezed my hand in between contractions, and told me, “The baby will come when he is ready to. These things don’t happen on a schedule!”
It’s not just ER. Family medicine, dental, vision, full cancer treatment, palliative care… It’s all free, including drugs, for every human, citizen or otherwise, legal or otherwise. There was a conscious decision not to restrict healthcare access and not to employ people to restrict access.
Here’s how it works in a poor third world country: https://archive.is/FL9qe (Original Washington Post article)
It’s not just ER. Family medicine, dental, vision, full cancer treatment, palliative care… It’s all free, including drugs, for every human, citizen or otherwise, legal or otherwise. There was a conscious decision not to restrict healthcare access and not to employ people to restrict access.