Capitalist medicine, paying more for those who’s only dividends in your treatment are the dividends they collect when you pay up. And paying less to those who provide the care just increases their dividends.
Real sad the way we treat nurses. The voters of Massachusetts even voted against them in a referendum on nurse-patient ratio. Virtually every media, let and right source against the nurses except one radio station in Northampton and one newspaper in Pittsfield that wrote an even handed editorial explaining both sides. People feared escalating healthcare costs.
Health care cannot be treated as a commercial transaction as one side has no bargaining power on entering or any control once within the transaction. The providers have all the power and can charge whatever they like for as long as they like – and they will if they are purely commercial entities. It is not possible to have a functioning health system without an overriding ethical basis at its core. That can only be supplied by regulation or by direct control. The latter is usually cheaper for the same result, as can be seen by the relative costs of health systems in various countries.
Bendarling1 over 1 year ago
Capitalist medicine, paying more for those who’s only dividends in your treatment are the dividends they collect when you pay up. And paying less to those who provide the care just increases their dividends.
rlaker22j over 1 year ago
and yet pay athletes millions of dollars for sometime work if they don’t have a hang nail,
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 1 year ago
Capitalist base healthcare is a bad mixture since what Capitalism wants isn’t you well it wants to not spend money on you.
TaximanSteve over 1 year ago
Real sad the way we treat nurses. The voters of Massachusetts even voted against them in a referendum on nurse-patient ratio. Virtually every media, let and right source against the nurses except one radio station in Northampton and one newspaper in Pittsfield that wrote an even handed editorial explaining both sides. People feared escalating healthcare costs.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
I was that retired nurse too many times last year.
BearsDown Premium Member over 1 year ago
Health care cannot be treated as a commercial transaction as one side has no bargaining power on entering or any control once within the transaction. The providers have all the power and can charge whatever they like for as long as they like – and they will if they are purely commercial entities. It is not possible to have a functioning health system without an overriding ethical basis at its core. That can only be supplied by regulation or by direct control. The latter is usually cheaper for the same result, as can be seen by the relative costs of health systems in various countries.