TY  - JOUR
T1  - Policy responses to demand for health care access: From the individual to the population
AU  - Vickery K, Sauser K, Davis MM
Y1  - 2013/02/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.96863
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 665
EP  - 666
VL  - 309
IS  - 7
N2  - 
A generation ago, Congress reacted to public demand for reform by passing the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. EMTALA was timely legislation, intended by Congress to impart a social contract between the health care–seeking public and a US health care system that the public progressively distrusted. In reality, EMTALA served as a policy detour that may have misled the public into believing the problem of health care access had largely been solved. As President George W. Bush explained in 2007, “[P]eople have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.96863
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.96863
ER  -