General Hospital: The Planet’s Most Addictive Soap Opera, Starring Billions Without Health Insurance
Port-au-Prince, Kigali, and a dimly lit soundstage in Burbank have more in common than you might think. Each, in its own melodramatic way, hosts a “general hospital,” that universal theatre where birth certificates, death notices, and insurance forms tango under flickering fluorescent lights. From the cholera wards of Kinshasa to the for-profit palaces along Dubai’s…