# Covid-19 News/Updates **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [March 18, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/covid-19-news-updates/54622 "2020-03-18T16:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 515
**Author:** ![Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/covid-19-news-updates/54622/515 "2020-05-05T13:50:22Z")
> [@tengineer1](#): > > It is first and foremost a business. First, foremost, and finally. We don’t have a health care industry, we have a medical services industry where any aspect of societal benefit is purely coincidental. We have a system whereby a broken leg can lead to bankruptcy and loss of one’s home. We pay more individually and socially than we would with a “single payer” health care system but have millions of people (the ones most vulnerable to the impact of the industry) who will fight any and all attempts to institute a system that puts health care above profit for a few. The American “health care” industry is a lot like congress, a good idea that has been so corrupted by mutual greed and profiteering that both are crumbling under the pressure they were intended to withstand. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/covid-19-news-updates/54622)._