We don’t have capitalism in healthcare. There are “profits” but because the system is not a free market they’re more “spoils” than “profit”. Profit comes when you sell something, and forcing an exchange is not a sale.
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Free market is just a flavor of capitalism. The main goal of capitalism is to give more capital for the capital holders.
Capitalism is when one person owns the capital and another person works it. This is also known as “an economy with jobs”.
The reason it’s associated with free markets is that people hiring other people — ie jobs existing — is what people decide to do when they are free to choose how to interact with one another.
Yeah but your point was that there wasn't capitalism in healthcare because there is no free market, which is factually wrong.
You can have capitalism with or without free markets.
Would you say that an oligopoly isn't capitalism? This isn't a free market, but it is capitalism.
Removing capitalism from everything isnt going to realistically happen any time soon. You're better off turning it into something everyone can benefit from. Bad actors abuse the boundaries/loopholes everyday. What loopholes and boundary pushing can good actors take advantage of?
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.”
Just because something can't be achieved immediately doesn't mean you shouldn't set yourself up for future success.
Sure, we can do our best to find quick success now to keep from being overwhelmed... but ignoring long-term goals means we'll be struggling for as long as we do.
Idk how that's your take away from what I said, but ok.
Capitalism, by definition, isn't something everyone can benefit from. There always must be someone on the losing side.