Hate to say it, but this is one of the reasons auto insurance is so expensive in SoCal.
When someone gets into a car accident and goes to the hospital, the hospital has to bill at a rate the subsidizes their "free" services to illegals. Insurance company has to pay the hospital bills.
Don't worry, if they had socialized medicine, they would have given you two aspirin and told you to go home...no point in sticking around when the wait-time for emergency surgery is two weeks.
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Anyway, glad to hear you are feeling better.