It wasn't the "little card" that payed for those expensive surgeries and care.
But the system itself took a cut, plus encouraged the cost of the care itself to skyrocket.
There is nothing wrong with benevolences; there is everything wrong with making cash cows out of guilt trips.
No, it was not. It was the overburdened American taxpayer.
I do believe things have reached a boiling point.
And that is saying something, given that Americans are the most generous people on the planet, always first on the scene in a huge natural disaster (Haiti earthquake; the tsunami, etc....)