those help, and are a major part of what keeps healthcare from being entirely awful. a public government option would guarantee that force exist at every level. this could have a variety of solutions where nonprofits are encouraged more. anything that would somewhat cap the roi of healthcare to make it more akin to investing in a bond, then it would stop scamming people so hard. right now shared investors and their profit incentive has driven less healthy food because diabetes treatment like insulin was able to increase it's price hundreds of percent. right now the profit incentive permeates into other markets and agencies so the fda and epa have leaders that came from sugar and fast food companies and also are heavy investors in insulin. what a coincidence. nonprofits have less regulation than normal about preventing conflicts of interest so they often sell rights to a medicine for extremely cheap or allow themselves to be acquired right after a member of a big company joins them at a high level.  our public health is egregious and conspires to make us sick so they can rip us off and it faces corruption at almost every level. in gov it's a little more controlled.  another thing gov does is it can decide who has a patent or copyright and it can get any rights it wants. a nonprofit cannot buy or invest in having access to specific pharmaceuticals, that is, even if it has a lot of money it cannot force the sale of those rights. and it still puts the price of those acquisitions to the behest of shareholders. the opportunity cost of scamming customers must be considered. the gov can use tax dollars to buy those rights at cost using imminent domain, if something would benefit the whole community then it can force sales, and it has no need to return on that investment. i can acquire a right to say, insulin, and then provide it at cost forever. nonprofits have many barriers to that or they already would have.
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