What is the primary goal of the health care system in the US?

[leftofthedial]

to make the maximum possible profits for the corporations that own it?

OR

to deliver health care to the population?

OR

to keep the population insecure and therefore easier to control?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. It should be to deliver health care to the people

after all, we have the inalienable right of LIFE.

[leftchick]

2. number 1

it is an INDUSTRY not a system.

[flvegan]

3. It's all about money.

That's pretty much the answer to every question these days, it seems.

[NightWatcher]

4. $ trumps everything

[DesertFlower]

5. unfortunately, it's

to make the maximum possible profits for the corporations that own it?

[liberal N proud]

6. Corporate profits are involved in something that should be about compassion

Compassion always loses to the corporate interest. ALWAYS

[baldguy]

7. P-R-O-F-I-T

[Nite Owl]

8. It's the money for

the healthcare industry first and to keep the population insecure for other industries even though they would benefit from a single payer system. It makes things easier for them to treat workers like a commodity if they know that the meager healthcare plan will keep a worker accepting all kinds of rules if they fear losing their job.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Maximum profits and returns to investors (tax-free, of course).

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Corporate profits.

Keeping the population insecure is just a side benefit.

[hedgehog]

11. There is no primary goal because we don't have a health care system,

just a jumble of providers and insurance companies, not to mention the educators. Right now we are educating too many specialists because general practitioners can't make enough money to pay off their student loans. Meanwhile, there aren't enough nursing schools and we're importing nurses from the Philippines.

[leftofthedial]

15. good point

it is a deregulated, laissez faire, free market jumble

[lapislzi]

12. A lot of #1 and a little of #3

or maybe I'm just naive.

[Vinca]

13. One word: profit. And if you die while they're making it, they don't care. nt

[dkofos]

14. That is the DUH question of the day.