Unfunded Mandates: How ER Docs Bear the Cost of America's Healthcare Crisis

Send us Fan Mail Dr Gillian Schmitz former ACEP president and current vice chair of education at Naval Medical Center San Diego, examines emergency medicine's financial crisis and its consequences. She identifies the fundamental contradiction in how America treats emergency care as a universal right while funding it as a privilege, creating an unsustainable system where nearly 70% of ED patients don't cover their care costs. • Former ACEP president with extensive experience in civilian and m...