The Bush administration is backing off plans to require hospitals to ask emergency-room patients their immigration status, after hospitals and advocates for immigrants protested.
The hospitals and immigrant groups said the questions would make people afraid to seek care and lead to serious public health problems.
Houston Chronicle articleThe hospitals and immigrant groups said the questions would make people afraid to seek care and lead to serious public health problems.
I'm sure the administration sees nothing wrong with that. Like the abortion issue. So what if we drive people back to the dark ages of medical care? There were kings in the dark ages.
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