By profit I mean charging a patient for treatment.
Everyone should get paid of course, and even handsomely including doctors, but what I meant was that no private company should be able to bill a patient for treatment.
You have a really weird set of arbitrary lines in the sand.
So it's totally OK for a single doctor to make huge profits off the NHS when they charge patients for treatment, but if those doctors form a company to share the load and amortise overheads, then suddenly it's a terrible evil that must be forbidden?
And don't get confused by simple word changes: when a doctor turns up at a hospital and does work in return for a large paycheque he is very much "charging a patient for treatment". The fact that the charges come in the form of taxes and take a long route to get to the patient's wallet doesn't alter the fact that the money comes out of the patient's pocket and ends up in the doctor's pocket!
So it's totally OK for a single doctor to make huge profits off the NHS when they charge patients for treatment, but if those doctors form a company to share the load and amortise overheads, then suddenly it's a terrible evil that must be forbidden?
And don't get confused by simple word changes: when a doctor turns up at a hospital and does work in return for a large paycheque he is very much "charging a patient for treatment". The fact that the charges come in the form of taxes and take a long route to get to the patient's wallet doesn't alter the fact that the money comes out of the patient's pocket and ends up in the doctor's pocket!