It’s not just illegal aliens. How many inner-city gunshot victims are in the ER in California and don’t have insurance? Hopefully, by them closing, people will realize that healthcare isn’t free. All healthcare services should be prepaid, IMO.
Yes they should be. But the reality of income distribution makes that impossible.
As you know the top 5 deciles pay 96% of the income taxes, and the bottom 2 deciles pay no income taxes and no FICA taxes. And then there's the whole huge cash economy which exists almost entirely outside the tax system.
Now there is the Draconian solution. Repeal the law making ER treatment mandatory. Let those without funds die on the streets. If that's what you want, then say so.