I have to laugh because my wife (who'se a NICU nurse of 30+years) tells me the hospital where she works must bill at 200% because medicare only pays 50% of the bills for their covered patients and expects the hospital to cover the rest. The hospital has changed hands 4 times in the last 15 years because all the 'freebie' care threatens to run the hospitals parent company into bankruptcy.
...if only the junkies and baby-momma's would stop coming into the hospital's ER they may stay afloat, and the bills would shrink, but NOOO, all these illegal 13 year old girls having babies are killing the industry...
Because they're ENTITLED to