Reply #22: I'm having a wonderful day.

[kevsand]

Thanks for the kind thought. :toast:

I am, however, increasingly frustrated when otherwise well-intentioned and compassionate people like yourself fail to address the underlying issues of a serious problem. You're falling for a classic bit of misdirection from the corporate health care system.

Many so-called "non-profit" hospitals are not-for-profit in name only. They farm out their essential services to out of town for profit companies that reap massive windfall profits while dodging their fair share of local taxes. These for profit providers are using the non-profit umbrella as a shell game, and are some of the worst pirates in the health care field.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck, it's a duck. If a non-profit hospital insists on conducting its business and screwing poor people like a for profit enterprise, then they no longer deserve the special benefits of non profit status. You and I are subsidizing some of the worst abuses in health care with our tax dollars as a result.

I've been a public advocate of single payer for over thirty years, and universal care is obviously still the only long term solution. In the meantime, for profit providers are hiding behind non-profit facades and playing both you and the local communities they operate in for chumps.