"DUINK" wrote in message
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Wrong again.......all hospitals are required to provide emergency care,
regardless of financial condition or citizenship (part of CA's problem).
The
hospital can hound you for payment, turn your account over to a collection
agency, and charge everyone else more (including those who wear their
PFD's)
but they can't refuse to provide emergency care.

True, but you ignore the obvious - that this care is paid for by taxpayers
ONLY if the victim is penniless. If a who person can afford a $20,000
motorcycle has an accident he'd have pay for it himself - helmet or no
helmet.