For-profit clinics and hospitals imply shareholders who benefit from surplus
value:  procedures are carried out in a manner to assure profit for
shareholders.  Extendicare in Canada and the US is such an example of a large
multinational for profit health care corporation.

Has anyone bought shares in a Morgenthaler clinic lately?  Free-standing is not
the same as for-profit! Learn a little economics before you make such
statements.

The best,

Dennis R.



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   Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish
        in helpless misery,
   That country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed:
   A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

   -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1770
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
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