"I just saw on another thread that ABC or its insurance company will pay the bills. If true, they're doing the right thing." Not true...if ABC or its insurance company pay.
He is taking up a medical space that an injured GI could have occupied!
Uh, the treatment has already been rendered, so nothing can be done about that, right or wrong. The fact that ABC will pay the bill is the right thing, regardless of whether you agree that treating them at a military hospital was proper.
Nobody's advocating that a civilian should be able to show up on the doorstep of a military or VA hospital and demand treatment, paid for or not.