Re:ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots – Healt...
by Pet_Ant on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:46AM
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I think the problem here is that "profit motive" is reduced to capitalism. For politicians profit is votes so under funding hospitals and prisons to spend in high profile pork projects (can even be tax cuts) is still profit motive. It's a rational choice if they think they can get more votes, more bang for their buck, by spending it elsewhere. This isn't traditionally seen as "profit motive", but really it is because it was done for the private benefit instead of over arching ethical deliberations or calculations for net good etc.
Re:ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots – Healt...
by PenguinCoder on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:17PM
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Non profit is a tax designation and that's it. Non profits, especially healthcare, still pay their execs and c suite multiple times *more* than physicians and staff, and cut corners and costs in many areas. Non profit status doesn't mean shit.
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by danesparza on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:24PM
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Having a non-majority of something doesn't make it "not true" or "not matter".
Why in the world would you include a statistic about the Catholic church in this conversation? Are you insinuating something? You can do better.
You really need to put more context around your last comment. It's confusing at best.
The overwhelming majority of prisons are run by the state.
The overwhelming majority of higher education is nonprofit.
The Catcholic church circa 1500 was nominally nonprofit.
PE probably does turn everything to shit but acting like profit motive is the core problem seems naive at best.