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I agree, there should be no limited liability for for-profit healthcare organizations.

And non-profit health care orgs should have strict regulation, and the state should appoint some of the members of the board.



> there should be no limited liability for for-profit healthcare organizations

Any. If you ringfence it to for-profit companies you'll just wind up with non-profits either siphoning profits away or exorbitantly compensating their leadership.


That’s why all high revenue non-profits should have some board seats appointed by the state, and state audits, etc.


> all high revenue non-profits should have some board seats appointed by the state, and state audits, etc.

Why would you want to politicise every non-profit like this?


It can be done fairly neutrally

In CA, put a professor of medicine and one from a mgmt school from the UC system on the boards of the to 10 medical systems. Let the regents pick the person, etc


Just hard-cap compensation.


given the absolutely nutso judgements juries award in the US, nobody would open a practice if this were true


They do it every day. Many (most?) doctors work in partnerships. And they have insurance.


No, only a small proportion (less than a quarter) work in partnerships and a large driver of the decrease is the American liability environment. But sure, doctors in some specialties choose to take the gamble that the liability doesn’t exceed their insurance limits. But such a gamble would be extremely risky for a system or hospital employing hundreds of caregivers.


My goal is to force the large systems into being non-profit


most large providers already are, it is no panacea. imposing further costs on the provisioning of care only means less care in the equilibrium


1. Force Americans to take GLP-1s en mass to get objective health care costs down (most are cus we are fat as fuck)

2. Destroy the APA and reform medical training in america. Doctors shortages are primarily the fault of professional organizations. Doctors in the USA are massively overpaid compared to the rest of the world. Use US power to force the free world to imitate us so that capital has nowhere else to fly to and is forced to stay here.

3. Do something to basically destroy scam wastes of medical dollars and insurance dollars like homeopathy, naturopathic, etc

It won’t fix everything, but it’ll do a lot to help.


My goal is to eliminate all non-profits. That is, I want them taxed!


I can’t even name a single large for profit system other than HCA.




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