Any hospital that is run for a profit is a hospital that has a dilemma, and most probably a moral dilemma, between profits and patients. That is to say, a for-profit hospital is ostensibly in the business of providing good health care to human beings, of which, those human beings are the product that is being utilized in order to make that profit. In other words, without patients, for-profit hospitals would be bankrupt, so patients are, most definitely, the product. Further to the point, when the given treatment and expense so made on a patient, is in any way, influenced by the expenses so involved from a profit or financial reimbursement perspective, that hospital is compromised, and the patient's right thereby to good healthcare has been damaged.
While, no doubt, there are all sorts of rules, regulations, and oversights when it comes to procedures, billing, and patients within for-profit hospitals -- the fact of the matter is that almost no amount of investigation and examination is going to be able to fully come to a fair accounting of all that has occurred, and whether such is right, wrong, or somewhere in-between. So that, it is fair to state, that for-profit hospitals, by their very existence and within their structure, are always going to be at odds with weighing the most appropriate healthcare that should be provided to patients under their care, because of their conflicting drive to make a profit; whether that is fully in the control of the medical staff, or with its management, or some sort of combination of both, thereof.
Additionally, the admission of those to for-profit hospitals, in which those hospitals are not required by law to admit all patients, is essentially the relevant door that often separates the poor, indigent, and those of chronic bad health, from those that have the right insurance and ready means to pay their bills, in which these for-profit hospitals therefore accept into their facility, those that are profitable for them, and reject all those that would hurt their bottom line.
So too, medical doctors often have a multitude of choices that they can make in regards to both healthcare treatment and healthcare medicine that they believe are the most effective for their patients, of which, as long as those decisions are structured within a reasonable range of what other medical doctors have done or would have recommended, this affords those medical doctors or their superiors above them, to select those medications and procedures that are most conducive to profit making, all other things being equal.
Also, it must be said that in the scheme of things, most people are typically readily compliant with authority; and to a very large extent have an incredible amount of respect for medical doctors and their recommendations, especially within a hospital setting, of which this is obviously quite heightened when they are sick, and therefore are in real need of medical care. So that, patients in for-profit hospitals, to a very large extent, are primarily there to receive good healthcare, and are under the impression that is what they are going to receive; but in reality, though they might receive good healthcare, the motives of the for-profit hospital is, reflect, that they are at the end of the day, about making money and profits upon their patients, come what may.