AZ border hospital hit with $20 million uncollectable cost to treat illegal aliens | Eastern NC Now

Yuma Regional Hospital in Arizona has had a flood of sick illegal aliens dumped on them for treatment.  It has cost the hospital $20 million so far.  The bills are not collectable from the illegal aliens because they are uninsured and have no money, and disappear anyway.  The federal government is also not paying.  Traditionally, hospitals just add the money spent on unreimbursed care  to the bills of paying patients, but this much added on would send those bills to the moon and drive patients to other hospitals.  And taxpayers should never be on the hook for scoundrels who flaunt out immigration laws.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/arizona-border-hospital-hit-20-million-bill-treating-illegal-migrants-unsustainable/

The contrast with legal immigrants is stark.  Legal immigrants are required to get extensitve medical examinations for doctors approved by the US government before they ever leave their home country.  If they have medical conditions that need treatment, those treatments have to be completed in their home country before they come to the US.  Legal immigrants also have to prove that they or a sponsor has sufficient funds to cover their expenses, including medical, for the first five years. They are prohibited from access to welfate, including Medicaid, for five years.

Illegal aliens, on the other hand, just show up at a hospital and get treated, and stiff the hospital and its other patients in the process.  Illegal aliens who know they are sick can, and do, illegally cross the border for "free" medical care.