Meanwhile, up here in South Canada, the following:

Farmington Hospital Network Realizes $8.4 Million Operating Loss

The hospital experienced challenges that produced “a negative financial position never witnessed before,” Rebecca Ryder, president and chief executive officer, reported to the community in an annual report and meeting Monday.

Contributing to the increase in operating loss, she said, were lower revenues, a loss of $9 million over the past two years, government cutbacks amounting to $1.8 million for MaineCare services, an unexpected 2 percent sequestration on Medicare payments in April, an increase in hospital taxes paid to the state, fewer patients, fewer medical tests and charity cases increasing $2 million over two years from $10 to $12 million. Many insured patients have co-pays and are also waiting longer to seek treatment, she said.

Got it? $8.4 million operating loss, but their charity cases went from $2 million to $10-12 million.

The next time the anti-ACA crowd yaps about how “people can always find treatment at the hospital emergency room…” — this is the result you get from that kind of thinking.