Simply outrageous. The first responsibility of medicine is to heal the sick. Not some of the sick. Not just those who can afford to pay. All of them.

A society which cannot provide free medical care to its population (and to a visitor who happens to be in the country travelling, say, and gets injured in an accident) is akin to a family which will not give assistance to its own children when they're sick or feed its own children unless the children put X amount of money in the mother's hand first!

That's not a family, and it's not a society, it's a criminal oligarchy.