As one that's been involved in hospital administration since 1969 I can guarantee you that facilities such as HCA are not accepting nonpaying illegals. They are being shifted over to hospitals such as Ben Taub. Let the tax payers pick up the bill.
Two examples of which I have a hundred:
My dad died about 15 years ago in So. Cal. He had insurance when he died. We knew he was going to die from multiple myeloma. After he died the insurance company (and my mom for the deductibles) was still being billed by the hospital three DAYS after he died. My mom did get the deductibles paid via phone calls, but I don't think the insurance company did. Attorneys, et cetera.
Another example:
In Southern AZ, if you go to the hospital for an emergency, you must wait more than two hours to get emergency treatment, unless you are bleeding, having a baby, having a heart attack or a child is involved. Most of us know the only way to get emergency treatment is through an ambulance company.
I had injured my left leg badly because I fell/stepped in a hole that my gardner had dug to fix the sprinkler system. One leg was stuck in the hole. The right leg went sideways. It tore my right knee apart. Called an ambulance. Was treated immediately. Saw a doctor the next day. But I was treated for the intense pain at the hospital. Had I gone to the hospital with my husband driving, I would have waited three to five hours for treatment.
I had three more ambulance rides because of that knee not holding its own. Hit my back on a cat scratcher when my knee just gave out. Went into back spasms because of a previous injury in 1990.
One hospital charged over $2000 for an overnight visit. That did not include the ambulance ride.
Thank goodness we have hospitalization insurance.
But my point here is that we all pay for illegal immigrants through insurance, taxes, SSI and everything else.
I do not know what the answer is except that illegal immigration is wrong.
I'll make a third example just for the heck of it:
My brother-in-law was murdered by four illegal aliens in So. AZ. The illegals took a bat and beat him to death. Prior to his beating, the four illegal immigrants had beaten three other men, but none had died. All of the four victims were blue-eyed, strange, isn't it? The LEOs knew the illegal immigrants the night before my brother-in-law was murdered, but there weren't enough LEOs (not enough money) to go out and tag the four critters. Two of them were released; one of those two with bail. Both of those two went back to Mexico (I suppose). The other two were given ten years in our jails. Another taxpayers' burden, not to mention what my sister went through