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RE: Every Child in the US Regardless of Economic Situation Deserves Free Healthcare
Generally, I'm in agreement. However, I'm not sure medicine is a good place to have profit motive involved. The kind of abuse I'm willing to take from corporations on most other products, such as internet, cell phone service, Coinbase, Ebay....you name it...sounds horrifying in the medical context.
Isn't the profit motive what leads to falling prices, technological innovation and better quality? Certainly wouldn't want that in healthcare....
Sometimes. Surely you don't think today's corporations are "passing the savings on to the consumer?"
Saw IV (an unlikely citation) covers a little bit of what I mean with the insurance adjuster. My point is only, profit motive leads to prioritizing profit, not positive results. They aren't always the same thing.
I don't really need McNeedles Corp deciding it's in their shareholders best interest to simply disinfect and re-use needles, for example.
I would put corporations and free market in different baskets. I agree that corporations are a major part of today's business world, but that is why today's world is so messed up. Corporations exist to shield market participants from the consequences of their actions. That is their sole purpose. From a systems perspective, that equates to severing a feedback loop, which never ends well.
Totally in agreement. A free market without the stranglehold of corporations would result in a totally different look at the initial question in Caliber's post.
And you notice, corporations get that special perk through a partnership with government, who protects their right to keep profits but then dump the losses on the public. It's a symbiotic relationship -- corporations get a one way valve for profits, and government gets to point to the abuses (which they have allowed) as a reason for why their existence is necessary.