Health care victory

[Loyal Rogue]

The last thing we need is a non-profit solution, because the greed is what makes US healthcare the driving force in medical bankruptcy.

Fixed.

Even though it makes for interesting movies, people don't work 80 hour weeks for academic stipends or for the love of their fellow man. They work 80 hour weeks because they know they have a potential to make life changing, retire-at-35 type money. Those 80 hour weeks in the lab working on unproven technologies are what create the breakthroughs that save lives.

While I'm sure there is some merit in the idea behind what you say, the reality is that most of our medical innovation comes from non-profit university researchers funded by the government.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the single biggest source of medical research funding not only in the US, but in the entire world.

Most of the for-profit companies don't produce any of the ground-breaking innovations because, contrary to what you believe, that is not where the profit is.
The real profit is in producing "me to" drugs that are just molecular knock-offs of existing drugs (E.g. Nexium and Prilosec) so that they can file another exclusive patent to lock in profits for 5 more years.