For the most part, a hospital is a place to avoid. It will do severe damage to your wallet.
Not only that but the experience itself is awful.
I've had to accompany elderly relatives to the emergency room of a hospital on occasion. It is soul-crushing, to say the least. Many hours will go by before they even see you, unless you are bleeding or literally dying. Meanwhile you are surrounded with televisions showing the most horrid daytime programming you can ever imagine. I've had to go to the hospital gift shop to buy an overpriced dime-store novel to read just to keep my sanity.