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> shareholder profits Do intelligent people ever go to for-profit hospitals? I'd group those with for-profit universities and for-profit prisons as "nope, not
by klipt 9y ago
> shareholder profits
Do intelligent people ever go to for-profit hospitals? I'd group those with for-profit universities and for-profit prisons as "nope, not touching that, stay as far away as possible and hope they all disappear".
- ll123 9y agonon-profit hospitals and non-profit universities have had exorbitant price increases in the last few decades so they aren't doing any better
- klipt 9y agoMaybe, but for the same expense I'd rather go to (non-profit) Harvard than (for-profit) Trump University. All the best universities are non-profit, for the obvious reason that it allows them to keep massive endowments, which are spent on better education instead of being paid out to investors.
- fusiongyro 9y agoNo matter your intelligence, if you're having a heart attack, you go to the nearest hospital, whatever its tax status may be.
- klipt 9y agoOkay, but apart from emergencies, why would anyone go to a hospital whose goal is profit when all the best research hospitals are non-profit?
- fusiongyro 9y agoYour tax status doesn't necessarily indicate what your goals are. SpaceX and Tesla are for-profit and the Susan G Komen foundation is non-profit.