It's best to know and understand each party's interests. Insurance companies want to keep you alive and paying premiums. Hospitals (government, for-profit, and

It's best to know and understand each party's interests. Insurance companies want to keep you alive and paying premiums. Hospitals (government, for-profit, and non-profit) want you to receive a lot of treatment. The government treasury wants to keep you alive as long as your future tax payments exceed their healthcare and other expenditures. Government health departments have an extremely complicated set of incentives, dependent on exactly how they're organized.