Ethics survey: Treating the poor

What do we do when a person needs treatment, but does not have the financial means to afford it?
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The Ethics survey put the following mini-case study forward:
A man on daily wages needs an emergency operation, the nearest hospital is a private charitable institution. When the man is taken to this hospital they refer him to the government hospital saying that it is very expensive for the procedure to be done at their hospital. Do you feel that this is the correct step taken by the management?
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The results are:
Just over half of the church members (n=117) felt the charitable hospital was wrong to send the patient to the government hospital for the emergency procedure. A third, however, agree with the hospital's decision.
.The delegates were stronger in stating that the emergency procedure should be done at the hospital, with a full 3/4 of them disagreeing with the hospitals decision (n=34). The remaining quarter of the delegates were split between those who agreed with the hospital managment and those who were not sure.

This question is of course a challenging one, and one that asks questions on both sides of the spectrum.

1) Should charitable hospitals have the right to refuse emergency cases? By definition, that is what they are there for, and the right to emergency care is crucial for the right to health.

2) What is the actual condition of the government emergency care? Does the government setup adequately deal with serious medical conditions?

It is interesting that more people in the general Christian public were agreed with the hospital's decision to refer to the government hospital than the Christian health care givers who attended the conference. Though the majority of both disagreed with the hospital management, would it be a small indication that the case study perhaps reflects the reality experienced by church goers?