...routinely gouging their patients ($5 for a single Tylenol)...
Items like this quickly vanish from your bill when you tell the hospital you don't have insurance. It's the insurance companies they are trying to gouge, not the patients.
I think it is silly how people are so quick to blame the doctors and the hospitals, when the prices are set by the insurance companies 90% of the time. Where is the public outcry that insurance companies are price gouging and making millions off of denying sick people treatment.
Try the congressional committee tasked with investigating Insurance company profits prior to the latest health care bill which was really just insurance regulation.
Low profit margins compared to what exactly? Is it right for any company to make a profit off of the suffering of another human being?
Try a PR event created by politicians seeking soundbites and justification to expand their authority?
As for whether it is right for any company to profit off the suffering of another human being, absolutely not. It's also not right for people to do so. That's why I hate those doctors, nurses and EMTs, always profiting from other people's suffering.
You are right I should have been more specific insurance companies profit by denying you access to life saving treatments, doctors, et al, profit from giving you life saving treatments. Clearly those are exactly the same thing and you are completely correct. Clearly.
Items like this quickly vanish from your bill when you tell the hospital you don't have insurance. It's the insurance companies they are trying to gouge, not the patients.