Cost of living

This essay starts off with a setting where we already imagine whats going on. In just the first sentence we learn the year this took place and where the narrator worked, which was a hospital in the level 2  trauma center just outside Chicago. We also learn that the hospital is $54 million in debt, the introduction hooked me on as soon as i started reading because i wanted to learn why the hospital was in debt?, what they do about it?, whats going to change? Just a bunch of questions i had just from reading the introduction. The title also played a huge roll on why i picked this essay, and that is because it makes you question what it could be about and attracts the reader from there. The narrator starts to bring up patients that she felt bad for because they weren't able to pay off their hospital bills. At this point she was the one sending the hospital bills out and she went ahead and decided to lower the cost of some patients bills because they couldn't afford it. The hospital was already in deep debt so when you're basically stealing money from the hospital and you get caught, you're definitely getting fired. So she risks her job and maybe even career for these patients.