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by dogecoinbase 3144 days ago
No, because then it's what's optimized for. It's like if you run a hospital "like a business" -- it becomes optimized for making money at the expense of patient care.
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It's not like a hospital at all -- not that many hospitals couldn't benefit from being run better.

The revenue of a train line is proportional to passengers served and forms a baseline for the total value the passengers received from the service. There's no problems with stuff like quality of passenger care.

Hospitals ARE a business.
The majority of US hospitals are not for profit.

https://bizfluent.com/profit-vs-non-profit-hospitals-9733.ht...