re: Fundamentally Speaking, are There Any Industries That Should Be Not For Profit?

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No, healthcare is expensive because the demand for healthcare in the US is incredibly high.

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Serious queestion- do you have any stats to back up the ratio of doctors to patients raising the price of their services?

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The military, law enforcement

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You’re confusing size with efficiency

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and first responders

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Not government

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You could make the argument healthcare should be as well, but that discussion usually causes this place to melt down on both sides

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Nearly every medical advancement since Herodotus has been profit driven.

Declaring something a right, special interest, or under the jurisdiction of government, doesn’t mean scarcity and the laws of supply and demand cease to exist.

All people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You know what you need to live? Food. One kind of health care is being able to be fed. Since you know, you’ll die pretty quickly without food. You know how much worse the world would be if Wall Street no longer had the ability to make money off of food?

You don’t need to imagine. You have proof of it.

Boris Yeltsin went to a grocery store in Clear Lake, Texas and discovered that himself

LINK

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"Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev," he said. When he was told through his interpreter that there were thousands of items in the store for sale he didn't believe it. He had even thought that the store was staged, a show for him. Little did he know there countless stores just like it all over the country, some with even more things than the Randall's he visited.

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The average Texas suburbanite has a wider choice of food that the head of the USSR.

If you want to make an argument for regulations, fine. I might even join you in the support of some. However, to not recognize what the profit motive does for good makes you ignorant. It’s sad people are still making these arguments. It’s a complete failure of our education system.

These companies are built on fooling people though. Its disgusting.

You’ll need to clarify your question: there’s not a 1:1 relationship between the ratio of doctors per 100,000 and price. There’s a lot more variables than that.

But ultimately, I don’t think you’ll find many healthcare economists who disagree with the notion that outsized demand for healthcare services is the ultimate driver of cost. Curbing that demand has generally been demonstrated to be the only serious way to mitigate that upward price pressure.

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These companies are built on fooling people though. Its disgusting

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And people wonder why the NPC meme has caught fire.



You are just throwing out vague talking points without absolutely zero evidence in support.

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You dont understand what not for profit means. They would charge just enough to cover overhead and nothing more. Pay for labor and materials and real estate costs. But no stocks and no CEOs making 7 figures in these specific industries. Limit salary to 200% of the national average.

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Non-profits don’t operate like this.

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Profit is what the company makes after paying its people.

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No. Profit is what the people who took the financial risk and made the personal sacrifices necessary to provide salaries of the people who work for then company earn.

I cannot believe I watched the Berlin Wall fall and there are dipshits alive who still don’t understand that communism is impossible and evil. Yes. Evil. It is evil to ignore the individual dignity of any human being, which is what every single solitary Marxist Structure does.