> Shareholders aren't some distinct group. One of the big "providers" of MRI machines is General Electric. Are the shareholders of that conglomerate more honorable than the shareholders of some insurance conglomerate?
I wonder what it would look like to mandate that suppliers must also be non-for-profit. Companies would all have to spin up non-for-profit divisions (if they don't already have one) and sell to hospitals through them. I imagine it would be massively disruptive in the short term.
Anyway I agree that healthcare should be competitive regardless of whether it's for profit or not.
My wife and I just looked into genetic testing for our child-to-be and Natera bills insurance multiple thousands but only charges people $250 or so if you pay out of pocket. The hilarious part is they bill insurance so much that it would have cost us more to have them bill insurance ($650 would have been our cut of the like 3-6k bill) than if we had done it out of pocket. Ultimately we didn't do it at all because the whole thing seemed sleazy. It's just so fucked up.
I wonder what it would look like to mandate that suppliers must also be non-for-profit. Companies would all have to spin up non-for-profit divisions (if they don't already have one) and sell to hospitals through them. I imagine it would be massively disruptive in the short term.
Anyway I agree that healthcare should be competitive regardless of whether it's for profit or not.
My wife and I just looked into genetic testing for our child-to-be and Natera bills insurance multiple thousands but only charges people $250 or so if you pay out of pocket. The hilarious part is they bill insurance so much that it would have cost us more to have them bill insurance ($650 would have been our cut of the like 3-6k bill) than if we had done it out of pocket. Ultimately we didn't do it at all because the whole thing seemed sleazy. It's just so fucked up.