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> Most hospitals are already losing money or close to losing money. Taking away profit motive from them e.g. by subsidizing operation would only increase cost of care, because the incentive to run lean/efficiently goes away.

But... if they're already losing money because they're inefficient, with a 'profit motive' in place... it's obviously not enough of a motive to be efficient. They may be losing money not because of inefficiency anyway, but assuming so... existence of 'profit motive' coupled with inefficiency should be evidence enough that they're not linked.