Go to any hospital emergency room and you will probably find many if not most of the patients are foreign. They don’t pay, we do.
Most E.R. these days are a separate business from the hospital itself. But your point is valid.
My friend lived in a town in central PA. Nearly everyone there was white and native born.
It was once an industrial town but no longer. The hospital was probably the largest employer. The old people were lovely and too many young people were on drugs.
My friend got cancer. There was one oncologist and he was a circuit rider who lived in Maryland and rotated through seven Pennsylvania hospitals. He was in town one day a week.
Don’t get sick in the sticks. It took months to do all the testing from first suspicion and start treatment.
Oh, the citizen patients don’t pay either.
82% of the patients in my wife’s hospital are on some form of government assistance. And the “non pay” rate would have bankrupted any other business decades ago.
One of the hospital systems they took over five years ago was in the process of writing off half a billion dollars in bad debt. And they never talk about it. It’s astounding that most people have no idea they can just walk away from their hospital bills. Because paying your bill is not the norm these days.
Agree in Los Angeles illegals have caused many trauma centers and hospitals to close nobody pays the bills.