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Edited on Thu Dec-15-05 04:41 AM by V. Kid
...and concentrates on preventitive care then the more caplital intensive investments won't have to be made. If for instance if we spent more money on healthy living, on assisted living for seniors, on cutting down waitlists and getting people treatment before they clog up an emergency room we wouldn't have to spend as much on emergency treatment. If we had more specialization, instead of clogging up major emergiency hospitals with long term paitents, the system would be more efficient.
BTW, Obviously staff working in any enviroment will be looking for "personal profits" meaning P-A-Y. And I know full well that the family doctor's practice isn't owned by the goverment, nor do I want it to be.
But the point I was trying to make, which should be relativley obvious, is that a for profit health care facility, not a non-profit private insitution, not a public insitution, a for profit insitution has shareholders or owners. Those owners, are capitalists who invest their money not simply to create a service to society. But to make money from a venture. They don't do anything else. So essentially, while they do provide capital like you say, their capital comes with strings attached. If you want for profit capital, you have to realize that they're doing it to make a profit. If you have non-profit, public (goverment) or private (shriners, religious insitutions, charities etc), capital they don't have to create a profit and thus that wasted money won't be a factor.
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