Reply #27: No one should be surprised by this

[lapislzi]

As long as health care is operated as a "for profit" BUSINESS, this kind of thing is just going to continue, with no peace for the wicked and no rest for the weary.

Providing a high standard of health care--the standard one would expect from a wealthy industrialized country--and making profits are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but in our economic climate of rampant greed, extremely unlikely. Guess which one is going to be sacrificed? Hmm...here's a clue...the Decider said something similar the other day, only it was about peace and profits. Why should health and profits not follow the same model?

Why has the insurance "industry" even inserted itself into the medical profession? They are nothing but parasites.

Give me universal single-payer health care--the sooner, the better.