&gt; Hospitals (and the health care industry at large) has been drowning in billions-with-a-B federal and state dollars since ARRA.<p>For the US Healthcare industry, billions-with-a-b (for the period since ARRA in 2009) in public funds isn&#x27;t enough money to drown in. Its not even enough money to get noticeably damp -- its a $3.8 <i>Trillion</i> (annually) industry (something like, IIRC, 40% of which is public funds, so its not even all that big of a delta in <i>public</i> funds.)