More and more hospitals are closing because of treating people who have no insurance and never pay. The State of Arizona has been trying to collect from the Government to help defray these costs, the Government ignores the situation. Trauma units are closing because of this situation and perhaps when they are all closed people who think we are not affected by the South will change their views on that as well as their disdain for MD's, too..
Yes, isn't it true that three hospitals in California, catering mostly to an indigent/immigrant population, closed last year? And the administrators at Maricopa in your state are extremely stressed; there's been talk of closing it too unless there's some federal assistance.
People in this country need to wake up. The costs of caring for everybody in Central and South America at American standards of care is more than the taxpayers of this country can possibly afford. These people are NOT contributing enough in taxes to repay the government for their own medical care, and they certainly don't pay the hospitals. We have enough healthcare problems in this country without inviting millions of indigents here.