[DB]

It is a community hospital that gets public funds. I don't know the details of how that works though.

I spent 20+ hours with her in the room. That $500k bill would have more than paid for every piece of equipment in the room. It was mostly old equipment and they've recouped the cost many times over.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Let me ask you this. Does this hospital care for a lot of indigent people? Illegals? If so you have the reason the bills are so high, they are not a not-for-profit center and have to make up the short-fall to the bottom line with people like you or I who have insurance... and this is totally different from the subject of this article which is what doctors really earn.