[klipt]

> shareholder profits

Do intelligent people ever go to for-profit hospitals? I'd group those with for-profit universities and for-profit prisons as "nope, not touching that, stay as far away as possible and hope they all disappear".

[fusiongyro]

No matter your intelligence, if you're having a heart attack, you go to the nearest hospital, whatever its tax status may be.

[klipt]

Okay, but apart from emergencies, why would anyone go to a hospital whose goal is profit when all the best research hospitals are non-profit?

[fusiongyro]

Your tax status doesn't necessarily indicate what your goals are. SpaceX and Tesla are for-profit and the Susan G Komen foundation is non-profit.

[klipt]

But do you have any actual counter-examples to "all the best research hospitals are non-profit"?

[hockley]

Do you have any price comparisons between for-profit and non-profit hospitals?

[ll123]

non-profit hospitals and non-profit universities have had exorbitant price increases in the last few decades so they aren't doing any better

[klipt]

Maybe, but for the same expense I'd rather go to (non-profit) Harvard than (for-profit) Trump University.

All the best universities are non-profit, for the obvious reason that it allows them to keep massive endowments, which are spent on better education instead of being paid out to investors.