I live in Bolivia. the price of a doctor visit here is 24 dollars. The visit includes the doctor knowing my name and caring enough to sit read the labs, and talking with me. I spent 130 insurance 34 co pay for same visit and nothing .. meaning They did not remember my name. For profit companies run 40 percent of hospitals these days. Non profit runs 60 or it was the last time I looked. Both charge the same in yet the service is the exactly the same. Where does the profit for the non profit company go? If you pay attention walking the halls you will see some of the art and wonder. The idea that it cost 144 dollars to be a number meaning average doctor in us sees 4 patients per hour means there is a large profit margin and with 100,000 accidentally deaths from prescriptions and 648,000 from hospital being non health one has to wonder if the profit margin is to kill people not help them. https://newspunch.com/100000-deaths-per-year-in-the-u-s-caused-by-prescription-drugs/ https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health/hospital-acquired-infections/index.htm MAYBE if all profit is removed from health care and they all were non profit something better would happen besides murdering close to 748000 per year https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals Total Number of All U.S. Hospitals. 6,210. Number of U.S. Community 1 Hospitals. 5,262. Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals. 2,968. Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals. 1,322. Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals. 972. Number of Federal Government Hospitals. 208. Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals. 620