Legal Opinion
New England Health Care Employees Union v. Mount Sinai Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 11, 1995No. Nos. 1181, 1220, Dockets 94-7264, 94-7906PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
Connecticut enacted a statute, the Uncompensated Care Pool Act (“Act I”), which required those with insurance to subsidize medical care for the poor. Conn.Pub.Acts 91-2 & 92-16, as codified by Conn.Gen.Stat. § 19a-168 et seq., and as amended by Conn. PubAets 93^4 & 93-229. Under Act I, hospitals had to impose a surcharge on the bill of any patient with private health care insurance. The hospitals sent the surcharge to the state, which, after pooling it in an “uncompensated care pool,” returned it to the hospitals to cover the costs hospitals incurred for…
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