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Volume 341:1768-1770 December 2, 1999 Number 23
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When Money Is the Mission — The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care

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To the Editor: I salute Silverman et al. (Aug. 5 issue)1 for their article on the association between for-profit hospital ownership and increased Medicare spending, which drives home the obvious fact that for-profit businesses attempt to optimize profits. In their accompanying editorial,2 Woolhandler and Himmelstein offer cogent arguments to explain why the marketplace is not an appropriate vehicle to deliver health care without offering a specific conclusion, other than drawing a parallel to the blood-banking system. They state, "Like blood, health care is too precious, intimate, and corruptible to entrust to the market." Are they calling for the abolition of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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