It's more that they paid to cover the costs of all of the other emergency room patients that never paid their bills.
No one actually pays the sticker price anyway, that's an artifact of the strange ways that medical billing works. People that pay in cash (rather than insurance) are given large discounts.
No one actually pays the sticker price anyway, that's an artifact of the strange ways that medical billing works. People that pay in cash (rather than insurance) are given large discounts.