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Who else agrees that healthcare should be a nonprofit organization?

Of course the physicians, politicians and related industries don't like that. I just remember how well the hundreds of Catholic hospitals were in their hey day. Now, is is costly and arrogant, rude people run the whole dang thing.

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1. If you want it to be piss poor and not motivated to make advancements, then make it non-profit, but I like your enthusiasm. I agree with you, but it would never work and rightfully so.
2. I wonder how many of those Catholic hospitals no longer exist. They probably did not generate enough revenue to cover their expenses and had to close.
3. I agree totally.
4. My health care provider (High-mark Blue Cross) is a non-profit. That hasn't made it any cheaper. Maybe if we stopped thinking of health care insurance as some sort of prepaid medical service it would help. Also, you have to understand the economics of 3rd party payment. 3rd party payment by nature induces higher prices.
5. they can still make the same money -- all they have to do is make all profits go to salary and bonuses
6. No profit motive=no medical advances or outside money to fund equipment and operations, and no reason to invent anything new or more efficient. It also means no competition, because nobody would want to take your business away from you if you dont make money at it. The rest of the world has socialized medical care. It relies on the US to invent 95% of medical breakthroughs. Taking that away instead of just giving people money to buy health care would seem drastic.
7. I'm extremely tired of paying $800 a month just for me for my HMO's profit. Why does it have to be so expensive?
8. That is one option. But not what the American people elected Obama to bring in. First of all, Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. And change the system so that it is cheaper, and also so that the insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that that works in Holland. Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well. FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet. FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage. That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.