YOu cant.  Other than being a vegetable, the rest of humanity has to LIVE and that means RISK and that means sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose.  it is called LIFE.

If you want to be a vegetable, go plant yourself.  Otherwise, try living.

Probably because those who provide the medical care have to pay up the ying yang to get the cetification necessary to provide this service and the fact that just like those who provide the service are interested in making money (enough to satisfy their personal desires and more), those who seek the medical help would not ignore the chance to make money (enough to satisfy their personal desires and more) if the person providing the medical help screws up in some way by their fault or by result of a margin of error.

It would be great if our health was priority and that we should all get it just because we all deserve to be healthy every moment of our lives but that is not how our society (or the world for that matter) works because everything is based around money. The education to become a doctor, the equipment necessary to perform the test to determine the medical needs, the medicine necessary to cure or control the medical problem, the location where the medical service is provided and even the lifestyle outside the medical jobs of those who work in the medical field. If college, x-rays machinces and all other medical items and equipment, medicine, rent and personal things like lunch, personal vehicles, personal rent, bills, etc, were all fre then doctors would not need to charge people for their services.

Everything in life needs money. You can't even sleep out in the streets without breaking some kind of law and these days you need utilities to survive so money is a must to live even semi-decently in this country.

No one should be in the poorhouse because of disease--it's called humanity.

Of course, there are tangible and intangible costs to health. Nevertheless, profiteering off sickness should end; and yes, by regulation if need be.

No, it is called living.  I CHOSE to gamble and  not carry insurance when I was young.  To maximize my earnings.  I gambled that at my age, I would not have larges expenses, and I won.  Some win, some lose. It is called life. A co-worker lost.

You cannot legislate life (at least under our current constitution).  That is what this is all about.  regulating every breath we take.

 Duke Wayne, did you also not have auto and life insurance?

Please tell me in your mind where it is ok to make a profit and where it is not ok?

Thanks for the name!

No on Life, and no on Auto - until I bought a car.  but no one forced me to buy one to live either.

I thought it was the Republicans that were the party of "Anti-Choice" and the Democrats were the party of "Pro-Choice"?  I guess that's only because they get to choose what our choices are?

Ever hear of Vaugn Meader?  if you were not around when JFK was president probably not as he did an imitation of JFK that was spot on!  And his career died when kennedy did.

But he use to have a joke - "Vote for the Kennedy of your choice, but vote!"

The democrats have never forgotten that - "Choose the option we select, but choose!".

My parents were weeee lil ones during JFK's presidency.  I'm only 30

I got corns older than you!

Hmmm, I'm gonna go with eww. 

Well you seem well adjusted AD.

In my mind profit is defined by the net gain after total costs. The problem, however, is that along the money trail everyone dips into the till under the guise of costs rather than theft, causing costs to skyrocket and profits to diminish or artificially  inflated. I'm simply asking for a economic system of greater integrity whereby prifits are real and then used for modest compensation and mostly for reinvesting in the same system that created the wealth. 

Theft is illegal.  Costs are not.  You are confusing the 2.  If I walk into a store, and grab money out of the till, that is theft.  if the owner walks in and takes money out, that is not. If the owner tells an employee to take money out, again that is not theft.

Now for tax purposes, he better have receipts for that money.  But that is a whole other matter.