Seemingly no one responding has read the full article. Yea, the guy who the hospital is named after getting quick treatment isn't an egregious example of what the article is trying to highlight. Is it ethical? Probably not. But that's the realities of medicine sometimes

The real issues here are:

the administrative retaliation against staff who voiced their concerns

Making it a practice of not admitting patients due to being uninsured

People with nonurgent medical needs cutting the line for CT scans

NYU gets 250m a year in tax breaks in exchange for 'serving the community'.