Amazing Medicine Science?

Spending the last few days in proximity to installations related to medical science has not only given rise to a sense of amazement about the field within me, but has also raised certain questions on its use.
First the amazement... I was highly impressed to see the way they handled my grand-father at the Emergency Section of Jehangir Nursing Home in Pune. It was exactly like what they show in English television serials focusing on hospital drama. Within seconds of entering the team at Emergency worked in flawless co-ordination to attach equipment monitoring the vitals to my grandpa and started investigating to get a preliminary diagnosis. I never thought I would witness such efficiency in Indian Hospitals (no doubt the professionalism of the Apollo Group of hospitals was at work here), atleast in the current time period. Even the patient handling at the ICU was highly professional. More so the hospital staff were quite a helpful and compassionate lot. This was quite contrary to my perception of how Indian hospitals generally are. It is true that I make my judgment on seeing only the better part of the hospital - the Emergency Section, the ICU and the Private Wards, since I don't have the motivation to go and explore the general wards, but even this much is quite impressive and I will continue to be all praise for the hospital and their staff unless a reliable source tells me otherwise. I do feel that such professionalism and compassion along with advances in medicinal science makes for a much better healing and life-preserving combination than scientific advances alone.
Now for the questions. I observed that there were a significant number of patients in the hospital who were quite old. The main question I had was - does this magical life-saving science select its beneficiaries only on the basis on how much wealth they have? Shouldn't it be on a need basis instead? As in shouldn't those who are much younger, breadwinners for their family be given a higher priority to survive than those who are aged and have already lived most of their life?