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Originally Posted by Clocker
No, the industry is geared toward complying with government regulations in the most efficient way possible. It is driven top down by that, as the professionals at the front line try to provide real health care despite the rules and regulations.
A major force behind turning health care into an industry is government regulation, and ObamaCare forced a quantum leap in that process.
The old family doctor disappeared long ago as laws and regulations offered economies of scale to bigger and bigger practices.
ObamaCare took it to the next level, where only extensive networks of clinics and hospitals could remain solvent. Doctors sold out private practices to large clinics, and clinics sold out to corporate hospitals. And now insurance companies are buying the hospitals and clinics. And the profit margin in health insurance is still one of the lowest of all major industries.
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All you are talking about is the problems the health "industry" has in trying to make a profit. None of it addresses the proposition that health care is a basic human right. No one should have to make a choice between paying an insurance premium and putting food on the table.
Do you really think that someone working a minimum wage job has enough money to buy all the necessities of life plus health insurance? If you do then you have lead a sheltered life.
Capitalism is morally wrong because it treats human beings as a commodity.
