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Healthcare: a money-making business?

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Should private companies be allowed to run hospitals and turn a profit? In Beyond Business we visit the first public hospital in Britain to be run by a private firm. We ask whether healthcare is a business like any other and what the public sector can learn from the private.

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health and money

by Anonyme - 13/09/2012 - 01:44

Dont allow it
Im in the states and worked for the Hospital Corporation of America And Humana

Thje founders are gone and big money hjas taken over
Drug prices are problematic

A pill that costs 1.33 in India whjere it is made by a us co costs 23.00 here

For profit health care

by Bryan Emmel - 04/09/2012 - 08:28

Here in the U.S. we have plenty of experience with this model of health care and in many ways it is a nightmare. Of course, for the ultra wealthy, the care is extraordinary. For the rest of us, 50 million are without health care and the poor die much younger than the wealthy. Our infant survival rate is one of the worst among developed countries. In addition, with the profit motive directing their priorities, doctors tend to want to perform surgery as often as they can since they make more money that way.

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