Does Health Care's Profit Motive Hurt More Than it Helps?

The profit motive in health care can be a very bad thing.

The incentive to maximize financial gain -- and not always at the benefit of patients -- can bring us too many surgeries and not enough primary care providers. At its worst, it can lead to massive fraud and abuse.

But it can also spark positive changes -- or so the architects of the federal health reform law hoped.

Has it? The jury's still out on some of ObamaCare's most sweeping reforms, but a recent story on new financial incentives for end-of-life care shows the mixed blessings of the profit motive.


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