Tag: profit-driven health care system
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Coronavirus Has Revealed All The Things America Sucks At — Health Care, Food Supply, Emergency Response; We Can Officially Add CAPITALISM To The List
The coronavirus pandemic has ripped the bandage off a thousand flaws in how Americans do things. Health care was the first thing we were destined to slam into because we don’t HAVE a health CARE system, we have a health INSURANCE system. Not the same thing. As I’ve often said here, when people walk in […]
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You CANNOT Have Profit Incentive At The Core Of A Health CARE System
Some ideas are so stupid, you have to marvel how they don’t die at their inception. Example — having profit incentive inside a health care system. Of course we want people to “make money” doing their jobs in a health care system. That’s not the same thing however as having corporations step in as gatekeepers […]
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Hey, America — Here’s A Really Dumb Idea: Let’s Put PROFIT INCENTIVE At The “Heart” Of Our Healthcare System…
There’s a very good reason no other industrialized country has profit incentive built right into its healthcare system: a corporation’s bottom-line fiduciary responsibility is to its shareholders (the ones holding preferred shares, not the poor, dumb humps holding “common” shares) and NOT “health care customers” aka “patients”. If a profit-driven health insurance company gave in […]