The theory is that if the people that couldn’t pay also got lower level services in the first place they wouldn’t be straining the ER rooms.
This is especially a problem in SF with the homeless population. They obviously have no normal healthcare, but the hospital I went to was inundated with them (my own 5 day stay there was billed at over $80k; no surgery).
This is especially a problem in SF with the homeless population. They obviously have no normal healthcare, but the hospital I went to was inundated with them (my own 5 day stay there was billed at over $80k; no surgery).