What a hoot. The government and now the private insurance industry both tell the hospitals what they will pay, and the hospitals have to make do on that.
Go ahead close all the hospitals you like. As long as you don't pay hospitals what it costs to service patients, more will close.
By the time our government figures it out, you'll have two year waiting periods for all but open heart surgery, and even then they'll put it off for months if they can.
Hospitals are getting screwed, and you're next.
Who pays for the illegal alien bills? The government? Surely you jest...
I don't jest, and quit calling me Shirley.
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Still, seems to me if you close hospitals, the result will be more private clinics. And the more private medical offices there are, the less of this crap with illegals stacking up in the waiting room occurs. And frankly, I never liked hospitals much anyway. Private clinics are generally smaller, more personal, less likely to have annoyed doctors, and in your neighborhood instead of in the middle of the city's nasty ones.