[rayiner]

Humanitarian missions and charity are notoriously ineffective at achieving real change. See, for example, the utter failure of aid organizations to achieve any fundamental changes in Africa. Meanwhile, big drug companies and their anti-retro viral cocktails changed the course of the AIDS epidemic there almost overnight.

[fjejfjrjdjc]

And yet I continue to go untreated thanks to the profit motive...

[witty_username]

So? Money is a representation of human effort. Nobody wants to work for free or invest for 0% gain.

Is there a reason you think the price should be lower? (remember people working need money too)

[fjejfjrjdjc]

If you had studied economics, you would know that profit and income are fundamentally different concepts. The existence of profit (rather than breaking even) implies a market failure.

[tptacek]

I think you're confusing "profits" with "rents".

[mhb]

What's your control where you believe your wait for treatment would be shorter for the same quality of care?