[quote=walterwhite]I’m not sure there are local laws requiring hospitals to treat emergency cases. Maybe there are.
Doctors have independent ethical duties.
Certainly seems like a fertile ground for lawsuits when hospitals let corpses start to pile up at the emergency room door while the doctors are inside busily doing nose jobs.[/quote]
Certainly. Although one can argue the constitution does not guarantee health care. And if the individual mandate is thrown out, then the government can’t force doctors to save lives instead of working on nose jobs.
Recently a lower court just used the “corporation are people” argument in the tobacco companies’ favor. Ruling that it is against the tobacco companies’ freedom of speech to force them to place labels that warn people of cancer risks.
That carried forward, then hospitals are people too, and the government can not force someone to save someone’s life when that person has no ability to pay.
