Emergency rooms are free... Free to those who don’t have anything and don’t plan on getting anything (above the board)... it’s the incentive system from hell...
That is why our emergency rooms here in northern NJ (and as I understand, many in southern CA) are closing; nothing is really “free”, and the working people who were paying for everybody are evacuating. Soon the only “healthcare” in these areas will be an Aztec shaman...providing for the Aztec residents.