McGrath, I don't know how widespread it is, but yes. I knew someone who worked in the emergency room in a hospital in Washington DC that saw a lot of patients with no insurance. Many of them were told to go there, or transported, from the more 'upscale' hospitals in the area. This was the routine, the standard procedure. Most of them didn't have life-threatening conditions since a lot of folks see emergency rooms as the only place they can get any care, but every now and then, I'd hear her raving about how some idiot had told a person who was having a heart attack to go to her hospital.