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By turning healthcare into a humanitarian mission instead of a business venture. My local clinic is for-profit and found that it made better business sense to
by fjejfjrjdjc 10y ago
By turning healthcare into a humanitarian mission instead of a business venture. My local clinic is for-profit and found that it made better business sense to only have the most rudimentary neurology department possible since it tends to be expensive. Instead they focus on their financial bread and butter like flu shots and annual checkups.
- rayiner 10y agoHumanitarian missions and charity are notoriously ineffective at achieving real change. See, for example, the utter failure of aid organizations to achieve any fundamental changes in Africa. Meanwhile, big drug companies and their anti-retro viral cocktails changed the course of the AIDS epidemic there almost overnight.
- fjejfjrjdjc 10y agoAnd yet I continue to go untreated thanks to the profit motive...
- witty_username 10y agoSo? Money is a representation of human effort. Nobody wants to work for free or invest for 0% gain. Is there a reason you think the price should be lower? (remember people working need money too)
- fjejfjrjdjc 10y agoIf you had studied economics, you would know that profit and income are fundamentally different concepts. The existence of profit (rather than breaking even) implies a market failure.
- tptacek 10y agoI think you're confusing "profits" with "rents".
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- mhb 10y agoWhat's your control where you believe your wait for treatment would be shorter for the same quality of care?