When healthcare companies and practitioners put profit ahead of people's well-being, what results is exploitation.
It's fine if healthcare if for profit. But, then the profits should be fed back into the system for rewarding practitioners, funding studies, and improving care.
In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Bill Maher talks about how rehabilitating prisoners is bad for business, how news has become The Beverly Hillbillies, and how healthcare has turned into a Jiffy Lube.
Did you know, for example, that there was a time when being called a "war profiteer" was a bad thing?
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The more people who get sick and need medicine, the higher their profit margins. Which is why they're always pushing the Jell-O.Because medicine is now for-profit we have things like "recision," where insurance companies hire people to figure out ways to deny you coverage when you get sick, even though you've been paying into your plan for years.
When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism?
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If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I get to call private health care "soulless vampires making money off human pain." The problem with President Obama's health care plan isn't socialism, it's capitalism.
Bill Maher | New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit
When healthcare companies and practitioners put profit ahead of people's well-being, what results is exploitation.
It's fine if healthcare if for profit. But, then the profits should be fed back into the system for rewarding practitioners, funding studies, and improving care.
In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Bill Maher talks about how rehabilitating prisoners is bad for business, how news has become The Beverly Hillbillies, and how healthcare has turned into a Jiffy Lube.