And what happens when they cannot afford to look after themselves? My mother’s last job before lupus forced her into medical retirement and on to SSI disability and Medicare was as the comptroller for a local private country club. She personally knows some of the richest men in town and she knows several who were diagnosed with un-treatable cancers by local doctors and were literally told to go home and wait to die. But because these men had the financial wherewithal to travel the world in search of cancer treatments that are not locally available their cancers were cured.
Docs do pro-bono work all the time for the needy and the facilities do the same in conjunction. Some reason you could not help out your own mother ?
This is basically the problem. Why do you expect there to be a government bailout be it your mother, BofA or Chrysler ??