The real underlying issue that the media doesn’t want to cover, is that hospitals are being compelled to treat shot-up uninsured gang bangers, and illegal aliens, and random deadbeats who walk away from all bills because they are judgement-proof.
And hospitals, in order to stay open, have to try to get money from anywhere they can.
I knew a lady who worked in a hospital in Philadelphia. The hospital mainly treated ghetto dwellers (who had no money but demanded prime service or they would sue for racism). The hospital eventually went bankrupt and closed.
I told the lady it was time to get out now, when she told me they were so short of money that they provided her with food-service gloves. She worked in a lab handling blood samples which included HIV patients. She got out, the hospital closed, and the ghetto patients went to burden other hospitals.
a lot of hospitals had to close their emergency rooms because so many people used it as a free clinic. The worst of them will get a “free” ride to the hospital by calling 911 and complaining of non-existant chest pains.