[rmnunez]

I suspect the problems hospitals in the US have more to do with inadequate funding than with the drain on their resources undocumenteds may make. Likely the hospitals were established to serve a local community which has grown and changed but those changes are not reflected in the documented data because the growth has been in undocumenteds.

Medical services in the US are a mess with all sorts of schemes for health 'insurance', complicated arrangements for co-payments, restrictions on the level of care that can be provided, negligible efforts in preventive medicine and costly pharmaceutical and specialized technology.

I suppose if about 20% of the population were deported there'd be better access to the basics, but I suspect this wouldn't resolve the problem, just delay the urgency with which health-care reform is needed.