[OldDeckHand]

"That’s nice of Eli but how can that hospital be that much in the hole? Yikes."

Illegals. It's that simple. The government demands that the hospitals treat anyone who enters the ER. There are a LOT of hospitals teetering on financial ruin, and many of those are located in illegal-heavy areas.

[rbosque]

I suspected as much. Here in L.A. many have gone under but the local media never really tells you why. But we all know.