Quote Originally Posted by Jeff2A View Post
The last thing we need is a non-profit solution, because the greed is what makes US healthcare the driving force in innovation.

MRI.
CT Scan.
ACE Inhibitors.
Statins.
Coronary artery bypass surgery.
SSRIs.
Cataract Extraction.
Eye lens replacements.
Knee replacements.

All of these developments came from the greedy researchers in the US, out to make a buck for their own family, and the end result is better technology for the entire world. Since 1975, more Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology winners have come from the US than all other countries combined, and it's not a coincidence (nor is it a mistake) that there was a tremendous profit potential for the people doing the research.

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.
You are damn wrong. If that was so, there would have been no scientific advancement ever. Researchers work on things day and night because they are purely interested in doing so. In fact money and greed is currently destroying the Universities and the research, because only certain type of research is supported. The result is that foreign countries, China or South Korea for example, are going to be ahead soon in a number research areas.