[Noachian]

With not one cent of funding for all this "free" care.

That's right,and with no one to bill the hospitals are suppose to carry the cost alone. Liberal politicians never worry about where the money comes from when they pass Utopian bills.

But, suppose the hospitals billed the state, and the state refused to pay because it's a federal mandate? The hospitals would have no recourse but to close their doors just as any corporation would do.

If hospitals started closing up, politicians would go into their CYA mode, and the state would quickly come up with enough money to keep them open through larger taxes on the people of the state - in this case New Jersey.

[FormerACLUmember]

Actually hospitals ARE quietly closing up all over the place. Los Angeles is in big trouble as the invaders shut down hospital after hospital.