Somerset Medical Center's Lack of Care!

Many times have my family and friends gone to Somerset Medical Center (in central New Jersey) seeking help with their health needs, and many of the times have they been turned away for either not having proper insurance coverage or the wrong kind. I remember going to the patient advocates office many times in the past trying to (within the system) correct the flaws in the care of family and friends in the past without much real positive results but instead get a pad on the back for comfort. This hospital claims to be a heart and stroke center yet when a patient comes in with clear symptoms of a possible stroke, they choose not to proceed in checking properly the patient with the minimal tests because of health insurance coverage. Today I experienced another episode with them on the case of a friend that came into the emergency room with clear symptoms of shingles disease and because this person was only covered by medicaid, the patient was sent home with cream to alleviate the problem with no regard to the deseases nature of being contagious and dangerous to othors. How can we fix the health care problem if the people in charge of making health critical decisions make that not based on health but as to how much insurance premiums reward them monetarily? If this was another problem like the H1N1 virus, I am afraid they would turn the patient away and put the public at large in risk of an epidemic just because they could not get a more sweeter deal or a larger charge for their services. The CDC has been informed but apparently they also take a tolerant stance on the subject. So can you really trust your doctor or local hospital in making vital decisions like the ones describe above when it really matters to both you and the public around you? I know I can not in the case of Somerset Medical Center, a hospital with a locally well known falling reputation of care. The local state government agencies are absent in this matter and so are the fed's. With this nationwide discussion about changing the health care insurance coverage, should we really dump more money on an already faulty health care bureaucracy or should the little we have be rechecked and corrected before investing more money on a poorly managed and corrupt health care pyramid?