[Penny]

Most hospitals don't close; they simply jack up the price for goods and services on American patients.

Ultimately, we, the taxpayers, are losers. Had hospitals years ago made similar threats, perhaps we wouldn't have the mess we have now, and perhaps jerks wouldn't be claiming "rights" of medical care. I don't recall the Constitution making that claim . . . Good day to you.
Penny

[goldstategop]

Yeah. Every year my health insurance ratchets skyward. Now I know why. I would love to receive free medical care. We Americans are such dummies.

[buckalfa]

I agree with actions under taken by the hospital, but
what has not been mentioned and the article only hints at
(future federal assistance for burdened hospitals) is that
most hospitals already receive untold thousands of dollars
in what is known as Disportionate Share (DISH) from Medicare
and Medicaid. This is your tax dollars already being used
to pay for free care, and yet hospitals continue to scream
about uncompensated care and continue to raise prices for
you and me while looking for further federal corporate
welfare in terms of additonal tax handouts. Perhaps some
of ire should be directed at hospital administrators who
cry wolf to the public while they are pilfering our wallets
via Congress.