Hillary Clinton is now telling a story on the campaign trail that appears to be a lie. The story is about a pregnant woman turned away by a hospital in Ohio because she was uninsured and did not have $100. The trouble is that the story, if true, would result in severe federal criminal prosecution of the hospital and any doctors involved. That is because the law, called EMTALA or Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, does not allow any hospital emergency room to turn away a pregnant woman because of inability to pay.
Emergency medical condition means—
(i) Placing the health of the individual (or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child) in serious jeopardy;
This is the language of the Act.
More important in this particular case is the fact that the woman was not turned away and she did have insurance. Apparently, both the woman and the child eventually died but there is doubt that the hospital was in any way at fault. Just as in the case of Al Gore in 2000 with his dog’s arthritis medicine and a few other tall tales, fact checking is something Hillary feels is unnecessary
I suppose we could call Hillary, like a Vietnam era pilot who seemed to carry his own antiaircraft fire around with him, “Magnet Ass.” She just doesn’t seem to get away with anything.