[idupree]

According to the article, a paltry 2% of your net revenue goes to uncompensated care (that's the California average).

"Though hospitals’ nonprofit status allows them to reap tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in tax benefits, California Pacific Medical Center’s main campuses spent 1.27 percent of their more than $1.1 billion in net patient revenues in 2011 on free care for indigent or uninsured patients, lower than the state average of 2.07 percent, according to statistics compiled by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The far smaller St. Luke’s branch spent 5.32 percent that year."

[dude3]

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-09-un... 49 billion in 2011. Yes and that's a far off estimate. Just go to the billing dept. in any major hospital in the Southwest. The gov needs to pay its bills. Yes, and hospital costs are out of control and need to come down.