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In reply to the discussion: Here’s the Thing So Many Americans Can’t Grasp About Bernie Sanders [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and for-profit prisons.
I imagine the person who owns a company that produces a toxic substance that makes people sick for a profit investing in for-profit health insurance and then profiting from that. It probably happens.
How ghoulish.
We used to have not-for-profit private insurance companies. That kind of makes sense. But profiting from health insurance????
Ghoulish. Just ghoulish.
Do health insurance companies make more money when people die quickly? Or less? Is it more profitable to deny care to a patient, to deny tests to a patient?
The moral questions that the concept of for-profit insurance raises baffle me.
Should we bind for-profit insurance companies to the Hippocratic oath?
I think we should. After the doctors whose bills they pay are supposed to obey that oath.