That isn’t the issue or what is involved here. What is involved here is not a young man just diagnosed, but an older man with a progressive disease presenting with pneumonia. If he hadn’t been the famous Dr. Hawking, would he have received the same care?
I don’t know about ALS, but my father in law lives in UK, had a pretty bad stroke, and the care he received was just as good as any I’ve seen over here. And he ain’t famous.