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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Is that really true in reality though? I don't know but that's not how they make it out to be on medical dramas on the television. Also, what is the definition of "general hospital".
The way it's portrayed, the uninsured or poorly insured people go to a pretty dodgy looking hospital. The rich people don't. It is of course make-believe so maybe poor people can, as you suggest, get treatment anywhere. My television set has lied to me in the past so I could be wrong.
Homeless Bob with a bullet in his neck or a tumor in his tailpipe can't just walk into Johns Hopkins and demand treatment, can he?
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The movie featured that community (I believe church funded clinic) where the rich hospitals would taxi their patients who couldn't pay (usually poor or homeless) and dump them off on the street corner by themselves and then drive off leaving them wandering in a daze.