At 06:18 09/08/2012, Mike S wrote:
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.
What on earth do you mean by a "profession in the 'classical'
sense"? If by this you mean in the "traditional" sense, then I'd
very much like to know of such a profession in which its
practitioners didn't gang up in order to restrict entry and thus
maintain high incomes.
Keith
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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