[seanmcdirmid]

Not to be pedantic, but the majority of US healthcare hospital systems are actually non-profits, so they milk profit a bit differently since they aren’t allowed to have any (instead it goes to administration salaries and overheads).

Even some of the insurance systems are non-profits. It doesn’t take shareholder profit motive to make money evaporate.

[consumer451]

Pedanticism is one of my favorite things about this website.

In this case... while my specific terminology may be lacking, if we zoom out and just compare the US healthcare system to other countries' systems, we demonstrably see lower per-capita spending and better patient outcomes. [0]

If we could agree on those facts, can you help me use the correct words to describe the issue?

[0] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

[seanmcdirmid]

Oh we are in total agreement in the outcome. But misidentifying the problem as a pursuit of profit might lead to a reform that doesn’t really fix our system. The issue is a lot of vested interests getting a cut of healthcare money, and without reforms to streamline that, we aren’t going to make progress in coming up with something better.