that story makes me sad on so many levels. America, the richest country in the world, lets our citizens go untreated, and reduced to eating dog food to stay alive.
you are right, the profit based system we have is no way to deal with health. A persons health is a basic need and something that you could almost say is a right. Profit vs. care for a patient will always end up generating conflicts of interest. I too also believe that capitolsim, with some restrictions is a much better system than some form of communism, but making profits on somebody's basic need for health isn't really something i stand for, for the reason of conflict of interest i stated before.