Meh, hospitals put uncompensated care at about $40 billion a year in 2020: https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-06-fact-sheet-uncompensated-hospital-care-co

Meh, hospitals put uncompensated care at about $40 billion a year in 2020: https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-06-fact-sheet-uncompensated-hospital-care-cost https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2020-01-06-fact-sheet-uncomp... That's not just unpaid emergency care that they are forced to provide, it's all their billing that isn't paid. That's out of $1.3 trillion of hospital revenues in 2020: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/nhe-fact-sheet https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo... 3% is a lot (because it's coming out of their net income from other procedures), but it shouldn't be driving hospitals out of business.