Reply #17: It connects health care providers with private capital

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Which allows those providers to recoup the losses they take from Medicaid. It also in the past has helped bring down health care costs, though that feedback loop seems to be more or less broken lately for a long list of reasons. It also provides us with a wider range of options for level of care vs. cost than we would have with a government-run system (eg, they still have private supplemental insurance in France and here with Medicare for that reason).

It's more or less an article of faith here that for profit health care work = evil, but I'm not personally convinced that the fact that a portion of the economy is generating profit is necessarily evil (though I don't think anyone would say the system as it is now isn't broken in many fundamental ways).

Also, mine at least does some administrative work I value; today my health insurance company texted me to remind me to get a flu shot and telling me where I can go to get it without a copay. And the gym discount, nutrition planning guides, etc. are nice too.