Should health care be about profit ?

Question

SDD would you care to elaborate ?

Answer 1

its sure.. if your do something and your get benefit, its are profit..

Answer 2

Well that sounds like a normative statement from an economic standpoint.  Should it?  Yeah, that sounds like a great ideal and I don't see why anyone would complain to have healthcare available to them at no cost.  It really would be nice, but because there would be no incentive on the service side to provide a competitive and efficient supply then, if healthcare wasn't about profits, there would be long lines at hospitals and clinics.  This happens in Canada where many people actually cross over to the USA to get speedy medical attention if they can afford it because they know that the waiting list in Canadian hospitals can be long due to universal healthcare.  It would be nice for health care to be about caring for people and not money, but unfortunately that's not the key motivator in a market economy.  It's all about whether you'd rather spend much money or wait for long periods of time to see a doctor who may be frustrated from doing extensive work and receiving minimum pay.  I don't deny though that there are doctors out there who truly care about the welfare of their patients, in which case you would be lucky then.

Answer 3

No, it shouldn't.  It should be about efficiency.  I think that a profit based medical system would not work well because it would give doctors an incentive to over use their resources.  If a person complained about a stomach ache, it might be more profitable for the doctor to prescribe a medication for the problem.  In reality, the patient might just have to deal with it for 30-40 minutes instead of using the pills.

Answer 4

If you want more of it, yes.