Some people think that good health is very important to every person, so medical services should not be run by profit-making companies. Do the advantages of private health care outweigh the disadvantages?

Nowadays, people are suffering from various types of diseases than in the past.

Hence

, some

health

care

organizations see it as a business opportunity and try to make more

profit

.

However

, I believe that making more

profit

using people's diseases is unethical.

This

essay will discuss reasons for having more disadvantages than advantages when

health

care

organizations consider only their income.

First

and foremost, medical centres should receive a payment in order to maintain their facilities and pay the wages to employees.

For instance

, they have to pay for electricity, building rent and doctors salaries.

Therefore

, owners of these facilities ask for payment from patients by providing various types of services

such

as doctor consultation fees, MRI testing.

Besides

, medical centres must maintain their equipment and buy novel machines to provide a better service to their patients. As an example, high-end X-Ray machines.

Nonetheless

, some are trying to make unnecessary profits out of

this

. To illustrate, when a patient visits a private hospital to get a consultation, the doctor influences him to do different types of testing from the hospital to make more income.

In addition

to that, some drug manufacturers trying to sell their products with a huge

profit

margin. As an example, during COVID 19 pandemic situation, a drug importer in Sri Lanka earn huge revenue by selling PCR kits with an unethical

profit

margin.

Hence

, the government should regulate those things by introducing a code of ethics to people who work in the

health

care

industry. To conclude,

health

care

organizations should earn money to cover their expenses. Even so, they must not make an unacceptable

profit

from it since their

first

priority must be to provide honest service to the patients.

Hence

, my opinion is there are more demerits than merits when a

health

care

organization is run as a

profit

-making company.