Hospitals Close their Doors

Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Because they cannot afford basic services, the uninsured often end up in hospitals needing expensive treatments that they cannot afford. The hospitals can only absorb these costs for so long before going out of business.
  • Uncompensated health care in California in 2001: 540,000,000 [11]
  • Number of California emergency rooms that have closed between 1990 and 2003 due to uncompensated health care: 60 [11]
  • Percentage of California emergency rooms that have closed between 1990 and 2003 due to uncompensated health care: 15 [11]
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