Just like the cost of apts, car insurance, home insurance etc is because of illegals.
I remember back a few years somewhere in the southeast there were a few doctors who had their own medical network and the prices were very low.
Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/15/independent-doctors-physician-owned-practices-congress-reimbursement/
More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly three in four physicians are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.
Yes the illegals are included in the bunch of working poor that could never pay the costs. With them gone, I dont think that would solve the problem though.