美国有4600万人完全没有医疗保险,但联邦法律规定任何医院都不得将前来急诊的病人推出门外。这一法律实施20多年后,大批医院因无法应付开支不得不宣告破产。不过,鉴于缺乏全民医疗体系的负面影响更明显,美国医学界中多数人已经表示支持推行某种国家干预或者主导的全民医疗计划,虽然医院和医生仍然反对政府实行任何形式的医疗价格控制。 In the United States, 46 million people have no medical insurance at all, but federal law requires that no hospitals can bring patients who come to the emergency room outside. More than 20 years after the implementation of this law, a large number of hospitals had to declare bankruptcy because they could not meet their expenses. However, given the lack of a clear negative impact of the universal health system, the majority of the medical community in the United States has expressed support for the implementation of a national intervention or leading universal health care plan, although hospitals and doctors still oppose any form of medical price control.