8 Responses to “How Do We, The Common Citizens, Remove The Profitable Part Of The Health Care Industry?”

1. Sageands Says:
   June 28th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

   There is no need to remove the profit (and I think it would be counterproductive).
   There are plenty of models around the world to choose from (in fact every other developed country has universal health insurance – it is only the US that allows children and the poor to go without health insurance), most of which are based on both public and private systems.

2. Blue T Says:
   June 28th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   You are so wrong. If you want the post office to run the health system, then your proposal makes a lot of sense. Remember they got rid of the private sector in Eastern Europe and what a great place it was! Low life expectancies, no decent health care, etc., etc.

3. Westhill Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 1:15 am

   Sigh, another statement masquerading as a question.
   The point of universal health care is to give everyone basic medical care, not to prevent doctors and nurses from making a living. And there’s one fact you’ve forgotten: most hospitals have always been “non-profit” organizations. Further, HMO’s that are non profits have actually prospered.http://www.consumersunion.org/health/hmo...

4. wild-man of Borneo Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 7:08 am

   When we learn how to share and care for one another.
   Not in just chasing the great American dreams of puff the magic dragon which turn into smokes and ashes with time.
   With just “Money, money, money” just “All for the money”
   When each and every living human kinds has only two hands living in misery out there.

5. thetimbo Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 7:29 am

   That is how you will ensure health care for no one because once you kill the “profit-motive” then they will stop investing their dollars in the health care industry. Then we won’t have a health care industry.

6. justin b Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 10:15 am

   Why on earth would you ever want to do that? That’s crazy talk……we need the profitable part to keep the US system as the number 1 healthcare system in the world……why else would so many others come here for their health care if we weren’t?
   #1 in quality of healthcare…..a widely acknowledged fact.
   Not # 1 in amt., but you can rarely find a combination of best quality and quantity. Only about 10% of our citizens don’t have health insurance….it’s sad that they don’t, but that’s not a very high number. BTW, ideally, all the great things in socialized medicine work….but nothing in life works out ideally. The government will not be able to afford the incredibly high MD salaries along with all the other expenses without raising taxes dramatically…..face facts.

7. ArgleBar Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am

   You do it slowly – integrating a level at a time. If you’re careful no one except the insurance companies get hurt (and you may be able to integrate their employees in, at least some of them), and the drug companies make less.
   Doctors, nurses, med supply companies, technicians, etc.. don’t get paid less – and hopefully you can put more of them on.
   I’m aware it’s easy to say and tough to do, but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
   As for those who say we’ll destroy it – they simply don’t understand yet.
   *The US Health Care system is something like #35 in the world, not #1.
   **Acknowledged by Limbaugh maybe. Infant mortality – terrible. Life expectancy – low. Obesity, heart disease, certain forms of – cancer terrible. 45 million is 15% – and one is too many. The FACT is it works in so many other countries it’s astonishing. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Seriously.

8. american Says:
   June 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

   don’t use it that’s how.

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