Why is health care considered a for-profit enterprise?

that is because doctors need to make a profit, shareholders need to make a profit, and

insurance companies don't want to loose any more money to pre-exsiting conditions or any sick people or PREGNANT women.

it's a shame how much money you pay per month, just to either pay a deductible or to be covered up to 60-85% for an average insurance company.

plus the high cost increase EVERY YEAR....insane...you wonder why so many people go to the ER because they have no insurance.

If you take the profits out of health care, all the investors will pull out, leading to a collapse of the health insurance industry. That's not progress.

Companies should be allowed to make profits, and nice ones at that, when they do a good job. When they don't compete, they can simply raise rates so they make more profits. If they compete, they must offer the most service at the lowest price, this will benefit everyone.

Having the government foot the bill at a loss isn't an ideal solution either. Hospitals could then raise costs, increasing the loss the government (and eventually taxpayers) take for providing these services. And we do see this in police and fire departments, and in road work departments, where they do what they can to increase their budgets.

Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, etc. decided that profit motives would reduce costs. And that non profit organizations had no incentive to reduce costs. And corporate profits were stagnating.

And the insurance companies have been fighting government insurance since 1948.

I think they've paid so many PAC contributions to politicians to protect their interests, they feel entitled to the system that bleeds us dry while they rake in the profits. HMO's made 4 billion dollars in California last year alone. They don't want to lose that money, and corrupt politicians don't want to lose the perks they get from HMO's.

I don't have a problem paying a doctor for my healthcare. My problem is with HMO's. 30% of my healthcare costs are actually going to HMO profits, not healthcare. Doctors only get about 20%. To me, that 30% to the middleman who is driving up the costs is a complete waste.

I don't know about non profit. Doctors and specialists deserve what they do, but not SO much. United health care had a 155% profit over last year, and 14,000 people are losing their health care every day. That's why the AMA supports health care reform.

Profit is supposed to generate efficiency. It's usually a good mechanism to improve the level of service.

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