Perhaps not all that different from American health care in general?

While someone is footing the bill, they'll work hard to keep you alive -- and also make sure it involves expensive work like tests and x-ray imaging for maximum billing.

If you have the misfortune of suffering something that is not covered or is not profitable for some reason, they'll figure out a way to kick you out to die elsewhere.

The interests of the corporations that run cruise ships and American hospitals are fundamentally the same.