It’s literally law, you cannot turned away from an ER for any reason. You should look into EMTALA. You’ve also clearly never worked in healthcare.

Meant to put AFTER.

Hospital ERs aren’t allowed to turn patients away for any reason, including insurance type and ability to pay.

You’re not, and it does happen everywhere. Same for employees of the hospital. If you work there and you’re waiting for a cat scan and you know the tech you just call them and tell them you’re a patient and you’ll be next AFTER someone who is actively dying/having a stroke. This really isn’t news.

I second Zocdoc. I’ve gotten appts with specialists the next day.

You should run for office!

Yea, I think it’s reasonable that he can cut the line of the skell who’s there because they have toe pain for 3 months.

Everyone gets triaged and everything is documented electronically. If someone was on deaths door and it was documented as such and the hospital got sued/audited it would be a major issue.

This is nothing new, every hospital that has a board of trustees and donors do the same thing. Regardless every patients gets triaged, and if they’re truly critical they’ll get seen just as quick. Maybe not in a “special room” but that’s not really important when you’re dying.

Unironically, there are tons of city jobs open that can lift people out of poverty and have less of a reliance on government assistance.

Irrelevant to NYC tax payers supporting migrants.

Go to any other first would country and proclaim that and see if they welcome you in and provide significant social services just because “no human is illegal”

Don’t forget the bike lanes!

True, how do we know he wasn’t in the middle of a mental health crisis?

Freezing temperatures, and shelters already at capacity. This will go well.

For some reason everyone is downvoting facts, pretty wild.

Do you actually think that the people living on the streets were paying 3k a month for an apartment a few months ago, but when they went to renew their lease the increase was too much so they’re homeless on the street?

Does this include the migrants who are in the shelters?

Not everyone wants to get clean tho, we can’t allow those people to destroy society.

Many homeless people are addicts, which is why they ended up homeless in the first place. There’s a reason why their family doesn’t want them staying with them. If you violently assault someone in a homeless shelter you should have the book thrown at you.

The book should be thrown at someone who commits a violent crime in a homeless shelter, full stop. These are people trying to get their lives back on track and those who create a dangerous environment should removed from society.

These same people are championing “housing first” for the people who create dangerous environments in shelters. Would you want the person who stabbed this woman as your neighbor?

Probably because it makes democrats look bad, which is why our news outlets refuse to report on a lot of things. (And I’m a registered Democrat and have only voted for democrats)

“Lander’s annual “State of the City’s Economy and Finances” report, published late Thursday, finds that the city’s budget should include a projected $1 billion annually in spending through 2026 to cover costs tied to housing, educating and feeding migrants — especially with the expiration of the ‘Title 42’ federal border policy on Dec. 21. “

Lander is the comptroller, this isn’t an opinion piece. Just because you don’t like a news source doesn’t mean the facts aren’t true.

That would be ideal, “throwing the book” at them is not likely tho.