. Although I will give you that ER facilities are also being used by US citizens who are uninsured as their primary health care facilities.

Yes, but that doesn't account for this, from my previous post, which you don't deal with in your analysis:

And those who are insured appear to be driving some of the increase in emergency room use. A survey released in 2006 by the California HealthCare Foundation found that Californians with insurance were overusing emergency services for medical problems "that often fail to meet the criteria for emergent or urgent care."

The hospital you write about has 120 beds. That is a small facility. While interesting it bears no relation to larger facilities.

Actually, I quoted the EM doctor who used it as an example.  It would profit you to read what I write and excerpt from in my comments more carefully than you apparently do so now.

I would think he would be more knowledgeable about the problems of hospitals, large and small, given that he had a leadership role in an organization of EM physicians in the past.

And while insured patients may be over using the ER facilities, at least they will pay, in contrast to the illegals not paying,  which is the point I made originally.

No, you claimed that they used ER resources excessively, when I demonstrated that in LA County they use it at half the rate expected by their % in the population, because illegals tend to be younger and healthier than the general population of citizens and resident aliens, and because they come here to work, not to leech off of our health care system.

That LA county has 12% of its non-elderly population illegal aliens speak for itself.

But you choose to ignore the implication of the 6% usage rate, half of their incidence in the general population, which speaks for itself as well.