You Tell Me Profit Does Not Matter in Healthcare... This article could have been an earnings report for car sales (except car sales are not so strong), about Home starts (except Home starts are not so strong), about pharmaceutical companies (that’s possible but even a stretch for them)... I’m no ‘country bumpkin’ (or anti-capitalist) so I realize Americans are generally OK with Healthcare being a for-profit industry... Yet..it still makes me horribly uncomfortable to read the “good news” that HCA made so much money off of other people’s misfortunes of illness. Wouldn’t it be a better society if we could develop a business model where hospitals and doctors made more money by keeping us healthy and out of hospitals! Selected Excerpt: “For-profit chain HCA Healthcare's net income jumped 25% during the second quarter of 2018... The company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased 6.6% in the quarter to $2.2 billion...” …see more