Legal disputes involving patients who were transferred from private to public hospitals. or subjected to long delays for medical care. are now being considered as a violation against Federal civil rights statutes. These problems of discrimination appear to be most frequent for blacks. Mexican Americans. Asian immigrants. A number of civil rights regulators have recently examined policies of proprietary hospitals that require patients to pay advance payments prior to receiving treatment and the diagnosis of illness. In addition. the failure of proprietary hospitals to inform patients of their "free care" obligations which they must assume in accepting HillBurton funds can be considered an attempt to prevent poor patients from receiving equal access to medical care in private health facilities.
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