insurance

[Goshzilla]

So when exactly will they have a medical show where families get slapped with huge medical bills, or when a life saving operation is rejected at the last minute because the insurance company does not want to pay for it?

[Sharktopus]

Or how about a medical show where you can't understand the doctors through their thick Indian accents? That is, if you can hear them at all over that IV alarm chime that nobody's come to turn off yet?

[Compound]

Actually, there have been a couple of Scrubs episodes where one of the subplots involves insurance issues. (As in "We can't treat this patient because his insurance won't allow it" or "We need to get this patient into this experimental program because his insurance won't cover the needed treatment.")

Sorry to give an actual respone to your rhetorical question.

[Goshzilla]

It wasn't a rhetorical question.  But I'm glad you answered it. It's sad that a comedy show has to have more truth than a drama, which is kind of what the Daily Show is to the mainstream news.