the predominance of nonprofit institutions. For these institutions, technical excellence—which in modern medicine includes the presence of the most advanced equipment and the most highly trained specialists—replaces the pursuit of profits as management’s chief goal. It might be that if we removed the tax-exemption privileges of nonprofit hospitals and research centers, and did away with that juridical-economic monstrosity, the medical malpractice suit, nearly everyone would be able to get the amount and quality of medical care he really needed—without any government intervention at all.
We Are Really Beginning to Hear You, Abe Rosenthal
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