Keith wrote:
> There's nothing wrong in principle with a for-profit medical system.
Sorry, I agree with REH here. Medicine is a profession in the classical
sense, that is, a vocation where the patient always comes first.
As soon as you make medicine (or "health care" if you must) into a
for-profit business, the bottom line comes first. Conditions that can
be treated profitably are, collectively, a money tree. The more of
them, the better. Ones that can't be treated profitably or that require
difficult and protracted diagnoses are liabilities. A for-profit
business externalizes liabilities.
- Mike
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