re: #38 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Okay, you were the one who raised government control of medical care. If you think that’s off-topic, then don’t bring it up in the first place. You appeared to have an incorrect impression of how medical care is delivered in this country: at the hospital level, at least, for-profit is a small minority of the way it’s delivered.

Yeah in an attempt to illustrate where I think left and right is. Why are you limiting private to the for profit side anyway? What of charitable non profit hospitals?
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A non-profit hospital, or not-for-profit hospital, is a hospital which is organized as a non-profit corporation. Based on their charitable purpose and most often affiliated with a religious denomination they are a traditional means of delivering medical care in the United States. Non-profit hospitals are distinct from government owned public hospitals and privately owned for-profit hospitals.

In 2003, of the roughly 3,900 nonfederal, short-term, acute care general hospitals in the United States, the majority—about 62 percent—were nonprofit. The rest included government hospitals (20 percent) and for-profit hospitals (18 percent).[1]