Kaiser's structure is complicated. Its health plan arm, which offers insurance, is non-profit. So is its hospital foundation, which owns and operates hospitals. Its medical offices are for-profit and owned by doctors.
I don't see a big profit motive for Kaiser because it's a non-profit. And because the same company owns the insurance provider and hospitals, they're incentivized to keep overall costs down. As long as they can't arbitrarily throw people off their plans, this means investing in preventive care and doing it cheap.
Traditional insurance providers don't care about that. They actually like it when hospitals raise prices because it allows them to charge higher premiums. Since they can only take up to 10% in premiums (or some other number, but it's a fixed %) as profits, higher costs and higher premiums are good for their bottom line.
Kaiser is how single-payer healthcare would look if it wasn't run by the government.
> reform the healthcare system so that its goal is focused more on healing people than stuffing pockets with cash and so companies that only care about money are forced out of it entirely.
What does that actually mean? What concrete steps would you take to accomplish this? Without specifics this is wooly, idealistic nonsense.
Again to take Kaiser's example: their doctors are salaried (at least the ones that work in hospitals). They have no incentive to overbill you or make you take unnecessary tests. The doctors make the same money no matter what procedures they do on you. And Kaiser owns the insurance company that's paying those bills. They also have no incentive to skip necessary tests. If they miss a problem it'll cost Kaiser more money later to treat you. Do you have a better way to "focus [only] on healing people" than that?