Propublica did a piece a year or two back about one of those hospitals in a poor area in one of the shitholy states, LA I think, that was suing people for medical debt, going after their paltry assets. Insult to injury is them charging obscene amounts of money for routine procedures, and if you rejected taking someone to the hospital you could get criminally charged to boot. It is a service you have to avail yourself of, where there is no alternatives in any area usually, whereby their prices are rigged against poor people, and higher echelons aren’t uncheated either, especially moreso now with the US and States taking off the mask of fairness and openly embracing the corruption for the rich.

But that hospital kind of stopped after the reporting and said like oops, kind of a mistake, or something. Sunlight really does disinfect to a degree still.