Perhaps, to future generations of Americans, this pandemic will be a blessing. The crisis that laid bare the fallacy of health care insurance.
Let me explain ........
If you have no job, you lose company health care, at the very moment when you can least afford not to have it.
If your income is reduced, private health insurance payments are difficult to maintain.
Medical treatment when not covered by insurance is expensive because hospitals and insurers are in a cosy "club" with each other.
In a pandemic like this, these weaknesses are dramatically exposed.
A nation's health should NEVER be in the hands of "for profit* organisations!!
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We have health brokers, health insurance company, and health co executives.
They are all leeches and crooks. And the hospital is happy to overbill them, they don't complain.
PondartIncbendog
Level 8
Mar 27, 2020
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Non profits are no better. They follow and enforce the same rules. The issue is not tax structures (the only real diference between nonprofit and for profit) , the issue is universal access without businesses (employers or insurers) being involved.
MarkiusMahamius
Level 7
Mar 26, 2020
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What I regard as not for profit is an organisation entirely out of the business system. ie. Governmental or parastatal.
@Petter Parastatal; adjective
(of an organization or industry) having some political authority and serving the state indirectly, especially in some African countries.
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@PondartIncbendog We had them in that backward, third world country where I was born, Kenya.
Electric power, Water provision, railways and medical (although the latter was only basic.) were all provided by a parastatal.
It meant that private business could not rip off the populace.
@Petter Sounds better than here. The backwards USA. We have bullets and guns, but no health insurance. Like a race car driver with a full suit and no helmet.
@Petter what youre conceptualizing would be more like a utility in the US. A non profit isnt a term that has anything to do with the public good, it just means the people who run the business can't own it- the administer it take salaries and bonuses (sometimes exorbitant), and if there are profits at the end of the year, they have to toll them back into the business . Some non profits are also charitable, but not all, but per the US tax code, something about them must be for the public good. EG a non profit hospital is "good" because it is working to offer a needed public service, but they business behavior of the hospital can be just as horrible as a for profit.
Nothing deemed as a basic necessity should be. Supermarkets? Groceries? Let's get really specific: all toilet paper should be non-profit! 
bingst
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Mar 26, 2020
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