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New rules put forth by the bush administration that took effect on Nov. 10 significantly relax strictures in the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) that required hospitals and some hospital-owned clinics to examine and treat people who need emergency medical care even when those patients can’t pay.

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