A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker argues money should not influence decisions about life and death, noting medicine has become a business.
- In plain terms
- He says money should not matter in life or death, but medicine is now a business.
- What can you take from it?
- Commercial interests should not dictate life or death decisions.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can medicine exist without profit?
- Where should money enter healthcare?
Another view
Ignoring business realities may not sustain medical systems.
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