Welcome to the Dystopia: the Myriad wonders of a privatized health care system

[Vosem]

While a privatized health-care system is better than a public one most ways (it does better in a myriad ways), this is rather amoral and shouldn't be done. A hospital's first task should be to cure the sick, or at least care for them -- a hospital's second task should be to get money. The second is also honorable, but it shouldn't interfere with the first.

[Vosem]

Without money, how can a hospital afford to provide health care?  There is no such thing as free health care.  Someone has to bear the expense of its provision in some form.  Hence a hospital has to worry about what you consider to be its second task at least as much as its first task.

I understand that, but I don't think it's really 'right' to be pestering people about debt before they are discharged. Afterwards, as much as you want. But then, I don't work in the medical field -- one of the beauties of privatization is that if that's how you want to govern your business, by all means you can do that.