Australia The 2009 "Final Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals", known as
The Garling Report, documented a series of high-profile medical controversies in the
New South Wales public hospital system, and issued over one hundred recommendations that stimulated considerable discussion and controversy.
United States A federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) "requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when a patient presents to an emergency room for attention to an emergency medical condition." ==See also==