On: The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses

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Non profit status isn't an instant fix for a dysfunctional system. Once the profit motive is removed, other incentives take over as primary motivators. The not for profit, Government-run Veterans Affairs hospitals have a higher administrator to physician ratio than most private hospitals and are well known within medicine for inane administrative roadblocks to effective patient care.

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Yes, the profit motive does enforce at least a little pressure on reducing unnecessary overhead. This is of course not universally the case.