Can real health care reform be achieved in a for-profit system?

Accessible health care for all and decreased costs are the goals of current health care reform efforts, but the pharmaceutical, and insurance companies and private health care institutions health care reform is a chance to shift public money to subsidize private profits. While many are demanding Medicare For All as an immediate, practical step to a national single-payer system, much of Medicare and Medicaid has been subcontracted out to private insurers and Medicare Part D has proven to be a huge give-away to the drug companies. These same interests are undermining universal health care systems in other countries. Front-line health practitioners witness daily how the current, profit driven health care system and increasing inequality create barriers to health and are destructive of the things we truly value.