Will anyone say it? For-profit healthcare is unaffordable.

[lindysalsagal]

Until we take the money out of it, we'll be a second-rate country.

[Phoenix61]

1. Exactly!

There is something morally wrong with profitting off people getting hurt or sick.

[anarch]

2. which is not to say that doctors and other medical professionals shouldn't be compensated

in accordance with their skills and long years of education and training...but yes, it's not only completely unethical and just plain backwards and wrong, but it does indeed end up costing more for everyone when we have a for-profit medical system. A hospital's mission should be to save lives and promote health, not to turn a profit and make their shareholders rich(er).

Same with education, in my opinion, but with healthcare it seems so obvious.

What if, say, firefighting was a for-profit industry? Didn't pay up your firefighting insurance, and can't afford our overpriced fire-suppression services? Well, too bad, we'll just let your house burn to the ground...not to mention the potential for people starting fires just so someone could make money off of them.

[cornball 24]

3. Funny, I just said the same thing. Nothing will work well for EVERYONE until the greed factor

factor is repudiated.

[JenniferJuniper]

4. First thing lets kill all the insurance companies

[dubyadiprecession]

5. Cut out the middleman?

I like it!

[CousinIT]

6. TRUE. Take the PROFIT motive out of it, THEN we'd actually have HEALTH CARE

instead of just 'health insurance'

[WinkyDink]

7. I don't think one House Democrat asked (rhetorically) how TrumpCare would rein in premiums.

[lindysalsagal]

8. Let's hope citizens want their care and will allow non-profit, public options.

At the very least, we should be establishing local government clinics to handle routine small-stuff like high blood pressure, diabetes, colds, ear infections, broken bones, skin problems, arthritus, and the like. We all will be better off keeping that stuff out of the hospitals. Publicly buy the machinery, staff it with simple diagnostics, and put all workers on simple salaries. Include mal-practice insurance in the cost and everyone has medical care that's available, affordable, budget-friendly, and dependable.

Save the hospitals for the surgical/cancer/birthing types of procedures.