But not as non-profits as they exist right now. They are as greedy as for-profit with the only difference that the profits go to execs and their business friends and not to shareholders.
Neither patient protection nor affordable care.
I think this is more about the retaliation of "having earned it/more," for all the decades of sacrifice becoming a thankless-physician entails. Money is a simple metric for simple people, but yes, absolutely it's about the money to a lot of people.
I dropped out after the first year, because I realized I would self-delete (at some point) should I continue on the careerpath to physicianhood. I am so grateful to still be here, xx years later, doing anything else:
If you want to help people and/or make lots of money, there are dozens of other career opportunities to do BOTH more-easily/better.
I don't really mean this as a dig at them either. It's just the way of business. High level leadership takes a certain type of person to survive and thrive. This tends to be people who want to optimize the value of every hour they spend working.
*source: am a physician