well, of course. imagine you are a business and the govmt could change a law and put you out of business. wouldn't you put as much money as you could into preventing that change?
this is why money in politics causes problems...
It just blows my mind up to what degree TurboTax will go with this!
But someone still has pay their student loans :)
i don't think this is meant in an interpersonal, malicious sense.
There are doctors who push these things that are of questionable medical efficacy, but definitely put money in their pockets.
People are generally good, corporations are evil by design.
Doctor want you to be sick? - no. Health Execs - yes.
I would say corporations are generally amoral, not evil. This is why regulations for corporations are so important; they guarantee an appropriate way to make profit without say polluting all the drinking water in the country.
In the case of the prisons and medical insurance, the profit motive is directly in conflict with the actual positive desired outcome. In cases like this it's clear that the government should be the service provider, where the desire is to reduce costs, not see them increase for profit.
One thing I would like to see more of is individuals who perform evil acts inside companies be held personally liable. To many walk away without any consequences, see Texaco and Venezuela.
In terms of slave owners, the person is evil, and so was the system. I suppose you have a point that corporations can be evil in some cases, but I'd generally say that is because of a lack of regulations to restrain them, but this is obviously a gray area.
Why would an HMO want you to be sick? They spend most of their time not covering medical claims. In fact, they'd make more money if you never used your insurance.
And your claim that people are generally good makes no sense. Corporations don't make decisions, people do.
The reality is, no insurance company insures known sick people unless compelled to with sufficiently large pools to redistribute wealth and risk. If a pool had only sick people, insurance is no longer insurance, it's a payment plan. What we in effect have now is one part insurance for totally unpredictable things, with one part payment plan for all the predictable doctor visits and scripts that people want to justify a monthly payment.
Allign incentives.
Before I could see a doctor, I had to pay cash. I had to pay again to do the blood tests ordered by the doctor.
"The public may yet regard as commendable the Chinese custom of paying the physician only during the period health is maintained, all emoluments ceasing during sickness."
Albert Abrams, Nervous Breakdown, Hicks-Judd Company, San Francisco, 1901, p 5
https://archive.org/stream/nervousbreakdown00abrarich#page/4...