2016 Elections

[Hatshepsut]

For profit companies will pursue profits. They're not bad for doing so...For profit health insurance companies increase profits by NOT taking care of sick people. Therefore, ... The fault isn't theirs but ours for putting them in charge and hoping they'll act contrary to their nature. 

True. We need single-payer or at least a system like Germany's "sickness funds" that are nominally outside government but required to run as nonprofits and follow German rules.

Here, doctors, hospitals, & drug firms make profits by doing more care, putting them in a tug-of-war with insurers wanting less care. Steven Brill in America's Bitter Pill  thinks monolithic hospital/doctor outfits like New York Presbyterian are getting an upper hand in a pushback. What happens is the worst of both worlds: NYP can force its sponsoring insurers to pay close to its outrageous chargemaster sticker prices, but the insurers meanwhile can still excuse themselves by refusing to cover or through deductibles and copays, leaving patients in the lurch.